Despres, Bridge & Noel v. Hough Drug Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Sunflower county. I-Ion.IL H. Elmore, Judge. Action by Despres, Bridges & Noel against the Hough' Drug Company. Verdict for defendant, motion for new trial was overruled, and plaintiff appeals. We submit that the Partin Manufacturing Company was not doing business within the state of Mississippi within the meaning of chapter 24 of the Code of 1906, and therefore was not subject to its provisions.
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Appeal from circuit court of Sunflower county. I-Ion.IL H. Elmore, Judge. Action by Despres, Bridges & Noel against the Hough' Drug Company. Verdict for defendant, motion for new trial was overruled, and plaintiff appeals. We submit that the Partin Manufacturing Company was not doing business within the state of Mississippi within the meaning of chapter 24 of the Code of 1906, and therefore was not subject to its provisions. The whole question hinges on the meaning of “doing business.” We refer the court to the following decisions from which the court concluded and we also, that the Partin…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellant sued the appellee on five promissory notes bearing date September 14, 1917, due and payable as folio ays : One for two hundred dollars, due four months from date; one for two hundred and tAventy-five dollars, due five months from date; one for tAvo hundred dollars, due six months from date; one for two hundred dollars, due seven months from date; and one for two hundred dollars, due eight months from date. The first note reads as folIoays :
“$200. P. O., Indianola; State, Mississippi.
“Date, Sept. 14 — 17.
“Four months after date for value received we promise to pay to the order of…
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