Winter v. Hardester

This is a suit begun by attachment in chancery by the state tax collector for the collection of penalties provided for in Section 2639, Mississippi Code of 1942, for the unlawful and illegal sales of malt, vinous and spirituous liquors. The bill of complaint was filed in the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County by Mrs. Thomas L. Bailey, State Tax Collector, against the appellee, Harold H. Hardester, Mrs. John Barmer, Sr., and John Barmer, Jr., as defendants. Mrs. Bailey died before the case was *203tried, and the suit was revived in the name of William Winter, the present State Tax Collector.…