Standard Oil Co. v. Bollinger

The Standard Oil Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Indiana and authorized to transact business in this State, filed in the circuit court of Sangamon county an amended and supplemental bill of complaint to enjoin the Director of Finance and other executive and administrative State officers from depositing in the State treasury a certain sum of money and from negotiating certain checks remitted by the complainant to the Department of Finance in payment of the motor fuel tax imposed by the act of 1927. The bill further asked that the money be refunded and the checks returned.…