People Ex Rel. Blome v. Nudelman

Mr. ChiEE Justice Wilson

delivered the opinion of the court:

February 20, 1939, this court awarded a writ of mandamus to William Blome and forty-six other construction contractors commanding the Director of Finance, the Auditor of Public Accounts and the State Treasurer to issue cash refunds, or credit memoranda, of the respective amounts of occupation taxes erroneously paid by the petitioners and erroneously collected by the Department of Finance. (People v. Nudelman, 371 Ill. 30.) Subsequently, the Director of Finance made partial cash refunds amounting to $14,768.49 to the petitioners in…