Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. Cannon
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari from the Court of Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court. — Walter MALONE, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This cause is before us on a petition filed by J. J. Cannon for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the court of civil appeals adverse to him, in that a judgment of the circuit court in his favor as plaintiff in this action was reversed, and his suit dismissed, by the court of civil appeals upon the motion for peremptory instructions interposed in the court below by the Tobacco Company.
Cannon purchased of a retail dealer in the city of Memphis a five-cent plug of Star-Navy chewing tobacco, the product of one of the factories of the defendant company, which tobacco had come into the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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