Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Lawson

This is an original action in this Court to restrain by writ of prohibition the Hon. J. Blocker Thornton, as Judge of the Circuit Court of Mobile County, in Equity, from taking further action in an appeal pending before him from a final assessment made by the State Department of Revenue under the provisions of the Alabama Use Tax Act (General Acts 1939, page 96, Code 1940, Tit. 51, §§ 787-811) against the Southern Kraft Corporation, a foreign corporation duly qualified to do business in this State, and having its principal place of business in Mobile County, Alabama; or, in the alternative,…