Mathison v. Brister

The appellee, Leon Brister, a resident citizen of Jefferson Davis county, Miss., is the driver of a gasoline truck, and the appellant, W. H. Mathison, is the sheriff and tax collector of Jefferson Davis county. Appellee is employed on a monthly basis to drive a gasoline truck for one P. C. Westfall, and starts out each morning from Prentiss, Miss., to call at various places to ascertain the quantity of gasoline that is desired by such places, and to draw the gasoline from a tank on his truck, and deliver same to the dealers, the filling stations. For his services he is paid seventy-five…