Schutte & Koerting Co. v. State

These consolidated cases, known and referred to as the Coal Products cases, all involve claims for compensation against the State of Illinois, growing out of the rendering of various services and furnishing of materials at the experimental Pilot Plant, which was constructed and operated at the instigation of the Illinois Coal Products Commission. The claims are alleged to total approximately $210,000.00.

At the outset, let us say that this consolidated case involves a voluminous transcript of testimony, together with innumerable exhibits, and is replete with legal and constitutional questions…