Bunn Capitol Grocery Co. v. State

The facts in this care are stipulated.

The claimants are engaged in the wholesale grocery business. During the years 1935 to 1936 the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, hereinafter called the Commission, financed its program of aid to the unemployed of the State by issuing relief orders which were exchangable at retail stores for various necessities including food. Said orders were demand obligations of said Commission and considerable time elapsed from their execution to their redemption, being paid, in fact, from three to six months subsequent to their original date. It was a common…