Watumull v. Tax Commissioner

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

COKE, C. J.

The plaintiffs, plaintiffs in error, Jhamandas Watumull and D. J. Watumull, copartners doing business as the East India Store, come to this court by writ of error from an adverse judgment in the circuit court in an action instituted by them to recover from William Borthwick, tax commissioner of the Territory, the sum of $3.27 alleged to have been illegally collected by the latter.

At the outset counsel for the defendant in error questions the sufficiency of the assignments of error and he further complains that plaintiffs in error have wholly failed to embody…