State v. North
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Cowt. The following is tlie indictment in this case: “ The grand jurors of the state of Missouri within and for the body of the county of St. Louis, now here in court, duly empannelled, sworn and charged, upon their oath, present that ‘William North and William P. Scott — they being a partnership under tlie name and style of North & Scott, late of St. Louis, in St. Louis county — on tlie first day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1856, and on…
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Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Cowt. The following is tlie indictment in this case: “ The grand jurors of the state of Missouri within and for the body of the county of St. Louis, now here in court, duly empannelled, sworn and charged, upon their oath, present that ‘William North and William P. Scott — they being a partnership under tlie name and style of North & Scott, late of St. Louis, in St. Louis county — on tlie first day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1856, and on divers other days between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at St. Louis, in St. Louis county as…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
The defendants, who composed a copartnership, were indicted, under the second section of the act entitled “ An act to tax and license merchants” (R. C. 1855, p. 1073), for dealing as merchants without a license. On the trial, it appeared that the defendants carried on business as merchants ; that they sold manufactured articles which were of the growth and produce of the state of Massachusetts and other states of the Union, and were imported by them into this state and sold in the original packages as imported. The *470court declared the law to be, that if tlie defendants were copartners in…
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- Thurlow v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1847
- Nathan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
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- City of St. Louis v. GreenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1878
- State v. Parker Distilling Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1911
- Mississippi Mills v. CookMississippi Supreme Court · 1878
- City of St. Louis v. ӔtersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1865
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