WESTERN OIL REFG. CO. v. LIPSCOMB

No. 168.

244 U.S. 346 (1917)

WESTERN OIL REFINING COMPANY v. LIPSCOMB, CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT OF MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, AS SUCCESSOR OF THOMAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 4, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.C. True and Mr. A.L. Dorsey for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Frank M. Thompson, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit by an Indiana corporation to recover money paid under protest as an occupation or privilege tax in Tennessee. The plaintiff had an oil refinery in Illinois and a steel barrel factory in Indiana and was selling the products of its refinery and factory upon orders taken by traveling salesmen in its employ. For the purpose of filling orders so taken in Maury County, Tennessee, it shipped into...

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