Burton Explosives, Inc. v. Strider

This is a suit to collect $2,416.65, the balance due of the purchase price of an interstate shipment of dynamite.

The defendants contended that the transaction was not one in interstate but intrastate commerce, and that the complainant could not maintain this suit because it was a foreign corporation that had not complied with the Tennessee law as to domestication by filing its charter, etc., and because it had failed to pay excise and franchise taxes and privilege licenses, as required by statute, before engaging in business in this State. The defendants further contended that the order for…