43-18-106 - Additional penalty recoverable in qui tam action. - Tennessee Statutes

43-18-106. Additional penalty recoverable in qui tam action.

In addition to the punishment provided in § 43-18-105, and either before or after, with or without criminal prosecution, any person in interest can recover in such person's own name of any person buying loose or ginned cotton that is not baled, contrary to § 43-18-105, a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to be recovered by civil suit in any court having jurisdiction of that amount.

[Acts 1917, ch. 88, § 3; Shan., § 6800a11; Code 1932, § 11270; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-2006.]