Mobil Oil Corporation v. Calvert

CALVERT, Chief Justice.

Mobil Oil Corporation sued the State Comptroller, the Attorney General and the State Treasurer, hereafter called State, to recover the sum of $386,893.65 paid to State by Mobil, under protest, as occupation taxes for producing gas. The total sum sued for includes taxes on three separate phases of Mobil’s operations, and interest and penalties thereon, in separate sums as follows: $301,415.55, $73,251.70 and $12,226.40.

The trial court awarded Mobil a recovery of a portion — $4,307.74—of the third item, but decreed that Mobil otherwise take nothing. Mobil appealed and by…