STANDARD OIL COMPANY (IND.), Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.

Case summary

Claimant sought payment for gasoline and oil delivered to the Military and Naval Department. The court awarded $18.09 based on the Adjutant General's confirmation that the bill was correct and unpaid due to lapsed appropriation.

Claim type: Lapsed Appropriation

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Headnotes

ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD-when award will be made for supplies furnished to the Military and Naval Department of the State. Where it appears that supplies furnished to the Military and Naval Department have not been paid for by reason of the lapse of the appropriation for such purpose, an award will be made.

ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD-when award will be made for supplies furnished to the Military and Naval Department of the State. Where it appears that supplies furnished to the Military and Naval Department have not been paid for by reason of the lapse of the appropriation for such purpose, an award will be made. H. G. GIFFIN, for claimant. OSCAR E. CARLSTROM, Attorney General; FRANK R. EAGLETON, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE LEECH delivered the opinion of the court:

The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, claimant presents its claim which they hold against the Military and Naval Department of the State of Illinois, covering deliveries of Red Crown gasoline and Polarine and were made at the claimant's service stations No. 4 and No. 2. The employees of the State of Illinois, whose signatures are shown on the delivery tickets attached to the invoices. The amount of the claim is $18.09.

The Attorney General files his statement setting forth gasoline was furnished the Department of the Adjutant General and was not paid, for the reason that it was not presented before the appropriation lapsed out of which it could have been paid. Attached to the statement of the Attorney General is a letter from C. R. Black, Adjutant General of the State of Illinois in which he said in the second paragraph: "I am pleased to advise that the bill in the total sum of Eighteen Dollars and nine cents ($18.09), as submitted by the Standard Oil Company, is correct, and that payment has not been made."

The court upon recommendation of the Adjutant General awards the claimant the sum of $18.09.