Poppatlal Shah vs The State Of Madras.Union Of India And ... on 30 March, 1953
44. It will be seen from the above that the offer and acceptance which results in the contract of sale and the final acceptance of the goods in performance thereof as well as the payment of the price all took place outside this State. The only matters which occurred in this jurisdiction were (1) the presence of the goods at the time of the formation of the contract and their despatch from here to implement it; (2) the consignment of the goods by rail by railway-receipts in which the buyer is shown as both consignor or consignee. It was the first factor and that alone that was held to impose tax liability on the assessee by Subba Rao, J., based on the decision of this Court in Poppatlal Shah's case (1952) 2 M.L.J. 593. But in view of the reversal of this view by the Supreme Court, the presence of the goods here at the time of the sale should be held to be irrelevant; and this was conceded.