Pearson v. State

Citations

• 66 Miss. 510

Syllabus

<p>1. Sale oe Personal Property. When complete. Delivery to carrier.</p> <p>A sale of personal property is ordinarily completed by its delivery to the purchaser. Delivery to a carrier for shipment, in the usual course of trade, is prima fade a delivery to the consignee.</p> <p>2. Sale oe Liquors. When completed in another state. Case in judgment.</p> <p>Where whisky is by agreement delivered to a carrier in another state for shipment to the buyer within this state, and the delivery is to the carrier as agent of the buyer, there is no sale within this state, although the order for the liquor is taken in Mississippi and payment therefor is received in this state. In such case, the seller cannot be convicted for violation of the lawB of this state against retailing. ,</p>