Bd. of Com'rs of Creek v. Alexander, St. Treasurer

The present action involves primarily a construction of section 4, subd. “a,” art. 2, of the act of March 11, 1915, levying and providing for the distribution of a gross production tax on petroleum or other mineral oil and on natural gas. The petition charges that since the passage of said act, and up to and including September 30, 1915, the State Auditor has collected from the different counties of the state paying a gross production tax large sums of money, a very considerable portion of. which is now held in the depository of the treasurer of the state; that unless otherwise commanded by…