State Ex Rel. Great Northern Ry. Co. v. State Board of Equalization

This is an appeal from a judgment in mandamus proceedings, directing the defendant board to approve a claim of $639.50 with interest for refund of gasoline license tax paid on gasoline lost in transit. The gasoline was purchased by the California Company, a gasoline dealer in Montana, from the Texas Company, a corporation engaged in the business of refining gasoline at Sunburst and placed in two tank cars for shipment by relator. One car was consigned to Great Falls Line, Great Falls, and the other to the California Company at Butte; both ears were derailed in transit and the entire contents…