Ficklen v. Shelby County Taxing District
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR 'TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE TENNESSEE. This case was submitted January 4, 1889, under the 20th rule. On the 4th of February, 1889, the submission was set aside, and the case. was restored to the docket, to stand for oral argument. On the 6th of November, 1891, it was assigned for argument. When reached on the 24th of that month, an offer was again made to submit on the briefs.
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ERROR 'TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE TENNESSEE. This case was submitted January 4, 1889, under the 20th rule. On the 4th of February, 1889, the submission was set aside, and the case. was restored to the docket, to stand for oral argument. On the 6th of November, 1891, it was assigned for argument. When reached on the 24th of that month, an offer was again made to submit on the briefs. The court thereupon ordered the case dismissed for failure to prosecute it in the manner directed by the court. Mr. W. Hallett Phillips, December 21, 1891, on behalf of the plaintiffs, moved the court to…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief J ustice Puller,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
In Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing District, 120 U. S. 489; *20it was held that section 16 of c. 96 of the laws of Tennessee of 1881, enacting .'that: “All drummers and all persons not having a regular licensed house of business in the Taxing District of ‘ Shelby County ’ offering for sale, or selling goods, wares, or merchandise therein by sample, shall be required to pay to the county trustee the sum of $10 per week, or $25 per month for such privilege,” so far as it applied to persons soliciting the sale of…
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