Turner v. United States

In this case the petitioner alleged that his residence was in Sagetown, in the State of Illinois; that he was a distiller from January 1, 1864, to July 1,1864, and in that time was assessed $79,168.20 on 145,620 gallons of spirits which he transported for wholesale a distance of two hundred miles, to Chicago, in said State. And that under regulations issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, dated December 15,1863, there accrued to him as an allowance for leakage $1,583.16. That he has made application to the Commissioner for the refunding of said sum, and that the application was…