GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF SOUTHEAST v. Boyd

343 S.W.2d 872 (1961)

GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF the SOUTHEAST

v.

B.J. BOYD, Commissioner of Finance and Taxation.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 10, 1960.

MacFarland & Colley, William B. Cain, Columbia, for appellant.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Milton P. Rice, David M. Pack, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

BURNETT, Justice.

General Telephone Company of the Southeast, a Virginia Corporation, having been required by the Tennessee Commissioner of Revenue to pay the tax hereinafter identified, brought this suit to recover that tax on the theory that it did not owe it. The Chancellor decreed…