Robertson v. F. Goodman Dry Goods Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Joe May, Chancellor. Two suits hy Stokes v. Robertson as revenue agent •against the F. Goodman Dry Goods Company and Greenwood Lumber Company. From orders sustaining the demurrer to the bills and ordering their transfer to the circuit court, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Joe May, Chancellor. Two suits hy Stokes v. Robertson as revenue agent •against the F. Goodman Dry Goods Company and Greenwood Lumber Company. From orders sustaining the demurrer to the bills and ordering their transfer to the circuit court, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The briefs filed in the case of the revenue agent .against The Goodman Dry Goods Company cover the •contentions involved in this case. It is taken for granted that both cases will be submitted at the same time either on…
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
While there are separate briefs on the part of the appellees in the two cases above styled, both cases were submitted together in the oral arguments, and both involve the same law points. In the Goodman Dry Goods *218Company case the state revenue agent, for the state and "the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta levee district, exhibited a bill in the chancery court of LeFlore county alleging thát the F. Goodman Dry Goods Company is a mercantile establishment in the city of Greenwood; that on and .after the 1st day of May, 1913, 1914, 1915, and 1916, the defendant company operated for each year a retail…
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