State v. San Patricio Canning Co.

This action was brought by the Attorney General, in behalf of the state of Texas and its game, fish, and oyster commissioner, against certain individuals doing business under the trade-name of the San Pa-tricio Canning Company, to recover an occupation, or license, tax, upon the theory that the defendant’s operations bring it within the classification of a “wholesale dealer” in shrimp, and is therefore subject to the tax prescribed in chapter 178 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-Ninth Legislature (22 Gam. Laws, 441), or, in the alternative, by article 936 of the Penal Oode.…