Lee v. Memphis Pub. Co.

Roberds, J.,

delivered a dissenting opinion.

It is, to say the least, taxing the credulity of the ordinary mind to say that the Commercial Appeal is not “doing any business,” or performing “any character of work or service” in Mississippi. It has what are called distributors in the various vicinities of the state, a part of whose contractual duties is to “Use every reasonable effort to retain all purchasers and to increase the number of purchasers of The Commercial Appeal in the above town”; to sell and deliver the paper promptly to purchasers, newsboys and news-stands “at the regular rates ’ ’…