Paul Jones & Co. v. Wilkins
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— H. W. Laughlin, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This suit was commenced by Paul Jones & Co., a wholesale liquor concern of Louisville, Ky., to recover the sale price of thirty-five cases of whisky sold to Wilkins and shipped to Memphis. The defense was based on the ground that the liquor was sold to Wilkins in be by him retailed in Shelby county, in violation of the prohibition laws of this State in force in that city. The trial judge and the court of civil appeals have concurred in a denial of a remedy to plaintiff in the suit; and the cause is before us for review on a petition for certiorari.
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