Temple v. Sumner
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Lee County. Hon. B. B. Boone, Judge. The facts in this case are fully set out in the opinion of the court. The following is assigned for error: 1. The court erred in refusing to admit the evidence offered by plaintiffs on the trial of said cause. 2. The court erred in overruling plaintiffs motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Simrall. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Suit was begun by attachment by L. Temple, president of board of supervisors, against A. Sumner, a nonresident, to recover the penalty imposed by statute for trading from house to house and from place to place to vend goods, wares and merchandise, without having a license so to do.
On the trial of the cause, a bond, executed by Leatherwood and others, sureties, was offered in evidence and rejected by the court; this paper recited that Leatherwood had been appointed agent by Sumner, to sell sewing machines * * * in the
counties of Lee and Pontotoc,…
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