State Ex Rel. Porterie v. Violet Oil Co.

On January 4, 1933, the state of Louisiana and Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, supervisor of public accounts, upon the relation of the Attorney General of the state, brought suit to recover of defendant $500 for a tax, with 20 per cent, penalty thereon, • and 10 per cent, attorney’s fees, alleged to be due upon a certain tank of gasoline, brought by the Violet Oil Company into the state from the state of Texas.

The tank, it is alleged, reached its destination in this state on or about January 1,1933, and it is also alleged that its contents were unloaded into defendant’s storage tanks, without the…