State v. Cook

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The collector of revenue brought this suit to collect gasoline taxes amounting to $31.80, including interest and penalties, and to have a motortruck and trailer condemned and forfeited to the State for violation of the tax statute, Act No. 6 of the Extra Session of 192S as amended by Act No. 16 of 1932 and Act No. 87 of 1936. The parties who were sued were R. T. Cook, who drove the truck and delivered the gasoline, O. B. Hammett, who was alleged to be the owner of the truck and gasoline, and Melton Nichols, who was alleged to be the proprietor of the filling station to…