GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION v. ATKINS


325 S.W.2d 270 (1959)

GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION v. Z.D. ATKINS, Commissioner.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing denied May 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry C. Foutch, Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff in error.

Jacobs H. Doyle, Nashville, for defendant in error.


PREWITT, Justice.

This is a confiscation case involving a 1956 Oldsmobile automobile, seized in Humboldt, Gibson County, while unlawfully engaged in the transportation of intoxicating liquors.

After the Department of Finance and Taxation had confiscated this car General Motors Acceptance Corporation filed a petition to recover the car and a cost bond as required by law.

At the hearing before the Commissioner of Finance and Taxation this officer entered...

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