State ex rel. Hilton v. District Court

Taylor, C.

On January 7, 1924, the attorney general brought an action on behalf of the state in the district court of Ramsey county against the Crete Mining Company, a Minnesota corporation, to collect the *283so-called occupation tax claimed to be due from that company for iron ore mined by it in the year 1921. On January 8, 1924, the defendant duly served and filed an affidavit that its principal and only place of business was in the county of St. Louis with a written demand that the action be tried in that county. Thereupon the attorney general procured an order from the district court of…