Standard Oil Co. v. Fox

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to secure an injunction to restrain the state tax commissioner of the state of West Virginia from paying into the treasury of the state the sum of $240,173.50, paid to him under protest by the plaintiff corporation upon his demand that, under the provisions of an act" of the state Legislature passed on March 8, 1933 (chapter 30), the money was due for license taxes upon certain gasoline filling stations and bulk distributing plants which it owned or controlled. The bill of complaint prays that a temporary restraining ■order and interlocutory…