St. Louis Cotton Compress Co. v. State

Claimant seeks to recover the sum of One Hundred Seventy-eight Dollars and Sixty-six Cents ($178.66) which it claims to have paid to the State of Illinois as initial fees on increases of capital stock, in excess of the amount it was legally required to pay.

Claimant is a foreign corporation, and upon obtaining authority to do business in Illinois, to-wit, on February 24, 1925, designated the sum of Three Hundred Fifty-five Thousand Eight Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($355,815.00) of its capital stock as estimated to be employed in Illinois. Thereafter claimant increased its capital employed in this…