General Atlas Carbon Co. v. Sheppard

McMILLAN, District Judge.

General Atlas Carbon Company, a Delaware corporation, filed this suit against Geo. H. Sheppard, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, Charley Lock-hart, State Treasurer, and Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General of Texas, to recover the sum of $47,570.51 theretofore paid by plaintiff to the Comptroller under protest and deposited in the Suspense Account of the State of Texas. Of that amount, $40,-647.37 had been demanded by the Comptroller as occupation taxes claimed to be due the State under the provisions of Acts 1936, 44th Leg., 3d C.S., p. 2040, ch.…