Sidney Smith, Inc. v. Steinberg

McDowell, judge.

This is an action in replevin filed in the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, August 19, 1949, to recover 74 cases of cigarettes of the value of $5,183.68, property of the Steele Sales Company.

In 1945, Maurice D. Plough and Henry Loeb, II., residents of Memphis, Tennes*245see, were co-partners engaged in the tobacco business under the firm name of the Memphis Tobacco Company; on that date they established a tobacco business in Steele, Missouri, under the firm name of the Steele Sales Company to engage in the sale of tobacco in interstate business through the U. S. mail. They…