ILL. BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. ALLPHIN

No. 47037.

60 Ill.2d 350 (1975)

326 N.E.2d 737

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Appellee, v. ROBERT H. ALLPHIN, Director of Revenue, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago (Fred F. Herzog, First Assistant Attorney General, and Paul J. Bargiel and George H. Klumpner, Assistant Attorneys General, all of Chicago, of counsel), for appellants.

Donald H. Sharp, James R. Bryant, Jr., Edward Butts, and Thomas J. Berry, Jr., all of Chicago, for appellee.


Affirmed and remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

Illinois Bell Telephone Company (hereinafter Bell) filed in the circuit court of Cook County its complaint seeking a declaratory judgment that certain of its revenues were exempt from taxation under the provisions of "An Act in relation to a tax upon persons engaged in the business of transmitting messages," commonly referred to

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