City of Marquette v. Michigan Iron & Land Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made from Marquette; Stone, J. Stipulated case between the city of Marquette and the Michigan Iron & Land Company, Limited, to determine the latter’s liability for taxes. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The court below held that defendant must pay taxes upon the sum of $59,733.34, the balance unpaid on contracts for the sale of standing timber, and upon the sum of $30,384, the balance unpaid upon contracts for the sale of land. By the terms of the contracts for the sale of timber, defendant agreed to sell to the vendee “all the merchantable timber, now fit for saw-logs, growing, standing, or being upon-the following described lands,” and “that the title to the said timber and the manufactured products thereof shall be and remain in the party of the first part [the defendant] unless and until…
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