White Oak Coal Co. v. City of Manchester
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, affirming, on appeal, a judgment of the Mayor of said city, imposing upon the plaintiff in error a fine of $10 and costs for employing wagons on the streets of said city without having first obtained a license therefor.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The plaintiff in error, the White Oak Coal Company, is a corporation rengaged in business as a coal merchant at the city of Richmond, with its yards, offices and stables located in that city, where it pays a license tax on the wagons employed in its business. Having sold a consignment of coal to a customer in Chesterfield county, it caused the cars containing the coal to be stopped on a siding of the railroad company in the city of Manchester, and from that point proceeded to haul the coal in its wagons over the streets of the city to the place of business of the purchaser outside the city…
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