American Tobacco Co. v. City of Danville
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to. a judgment of the Corporation Court of city of Danville, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for money. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
These cases, while depending upon different principles, were submitted together, and hence will be disposed of in one opinion.
1. The pertinent facts in Case No. 1 may be thus stated: The city of Danville filed its motion for judgment (Acts 1916, p. 729) against the American Tobacco Company for the recovery of $5,724.26, alleged to be the balance due on "the omitted and corrected assessment of its license tax on the business of purchasing leaf tobacco in that city for the year ending April 1, 1917, and there was a judgment in favor of the city, of which the company is here complaining.…
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