Case ID: ill-ct-cl_5/html/0138-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Leech", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 740
    Claimant awarded $6,768.33.)
    Orange Crush Company, Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed May 1, 1925.
    
    Franchise tax — when refund may he awarded. This case is similar to that of Herenden Milling Go. v. State, supra, and the decision there announced governs this case.
    Moran, Paltzer & O’Donnell, for claimant.
    Oscar E, Carlstrom, Attorney General ; Edward C. Fitch, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   Mr. Justice Leech

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a claim for the refund of franchise taxes erroneously paid to the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, by claimant, in the years 1.921 and 1922, amounting.in all to $6)768.33.

The demurrer filed by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, is, as a matter of law, sustained.

On the grounds of equity and social justice, we award claimant, the sum of $6,768.33.