Murfreesboro Bread & Ice Cream Co. v. Town of McMinnville

Complainant company filed its bill to enjoin collection by the town of McMinnville of a “Peddlers’ ” privilege tax, for the years 1931 and 1932. The company has its headquarters in Murfreesboro, where it makes and sells cakes, breads, ice cream, and like merchandise, and from that point sends out trucks into surrounding counties and towns, including defendant, where it sells and distributes, or peddles, its merchandise. It is conceded, in recognition of the holding of this court in Swift & Co. v. State, 165 Tenn., 256, 55 S. W. (2d), 267, that one of its trucks thus operated in McMinnville…