State v. H. M. Hobbie Grocery Co.

This is an action by the state to recover several amounts alleged to be due as license taxes on motortrucks operated by defendant.

The complaint, in each count, charges that from and after October 1, 1931, defendant owned and operated upon the public highways of the state a Ford motortruck (described by factory and tag numbers) “of four tons and less than five tons,” and had not paid the license tax required by law for such truck, and claims the amount of license tax due for a truck of that class under section 17 of the General Revenue Law, Acts 1927, p. 157.

In some counts further claim is…