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92 Miss. 89

Simpson v. Goodman

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1907

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1907-10-15

From the circuit court of, second district, Perry county. Hon. W. H. Oook, Judge. Simpson, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, Goodman, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in defendant’s favor the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. ¡ In February, 1906, Simpson, appellant, a life insurance agent, solicited insurance from Goodman, appellee, and received his application for a policy of insurance on his life.

Decided 1907-10-15

Whitfield, O. J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The municipal license obtained from the city of Winona ran-until April 1, 1906, and the policy of insurance in this case was issued in February, 1906. It is clear, from Laws 1904, p. 69, c. 16, § 49, that it was not the purpose of the- state to collect a municipal privilege tax twice. It is evident that the court *92gave the peremptory instruction on the language of Simpson himself as to his having lived in Hattiesburg for some two years before the trial; but there is quite enough in the testimony of this unusually honest witness to have carried .the case to the jury on this point, and to have left the solution of the question whether he resided in Winona when he paid the privilege tax for the jury to solve.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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