THE UNITED STATES CORPORATION BUREAU, Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.

Case summary

Claimant sought $1004.75 for publishing legal notices for dissolution of delinquent corporations, allegedly under direction of the clerk of the superior court. The court sustained the demurrer, finding the claim should have been paid by the Attorney General from appropriations and that no equitable grounds warranted allowance.

Claim type: Contract

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PUBLICATION NOTICE-when State not liable for. Where publication

PUBLICATION NOTICE-when State not liable for. Where publication notices are made by direction and authority of a State department compensation for same should be made out of the appropriation to that department. WIRT E. HUMPHREY, for claimant. EDWARD J. BRUNDAGE, Attorney General; GEORGE C. DIXON, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE LEECH delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a case brought to recover compensation for publication notices against delinquent corporations, asking for dissolution of said corporations, total amount of claim being $1004.75, and declaration alleges that the claimant, acting by authority and direction of Samuel E. Erickson, clerk of the superior court of Cook county, published said legal notices in the National Corporation Reporter in its editions dated April 7th, April 14th, April 21st, June 9th, June 12th, and June 23rd, copies of said legal notices being attached to and made part of the declaration.

The demurrer filed by the Attorney General of the State of Illinois is, as a matter of law, sustained. This claim should have been paid by the Attorney General from appropriations allotted to him during the period above set forth, and we do not feel that there are any grounds, either of equity or social justice, which warrant the allowance of this claim, hence the demurrer is sustained.