Stockton v. Morris & Pierce

Morris & Pierce is a partnership handling tobacco products at wholesale. Stockton and Dossett are employees in the Department of Finance and Taxation of this state, who, while engaged on February 9, 1937, in enforcing collection of revenue under chapter 58 of the Pub. Acts of 1933 and chapter 46 of the Acts of Extra Session of 1935, seized on the premises of Morris & Pierce, in Knoxville, as contraband a quantity of tobacco to which no state revenue stamps had been affixed. Thereupon this suit in replevin was brought by Morris & Pierce and, on the fiat of the circuit judge, the tobacco was…