Illinois Commercial Telephone Co. v. Smothers

This is an appeal from an order of the county court of Franklin County dismissing a petition of the Illinois Commercial Telephone Company, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, for the return of personal property taxes for 1947 paid under protest. The issue arose on an amended motion to dismiss the petition, filed by Clarence Smothers, the county treasurer, hereinafter referred to as defendant.

The plaintiff’s petition alleged that it owned personal property in ten townships of Franklin County, the total assessed value of said property upon which 1947 taxes were extended being $316,300; that…