44-10-108 - Purchasing hides of unknown person without identification or record unlawful Wholesale trade excepted.
44-10-108. Purchasing hides of unknown person without identification or record unlawful Wholesale trade excepted.
It is unlawful for any person dealing in hides to purchase of any unknown person the hides or skins of cattle, cows, horses, mules, goats, sheep, or any other domestic animals, without having such unknown person identified by some reliable person known to the buyer, unless the dealer in hides keeps in a book a record describing each hide, giving color and flesh marks and weight, together with the name and place of residence of the person selling the hides, also the name of the person from whom the seller procured hides; provided, that nothing in this section applies to wholesale trade in dry hides.
[Acts 1903, ch. 61, §§ 1, 2; Shan., §§ 6888a43, 6888a44; mod. Code 1932, § 11400; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 44-1908.]