Parsons v. Detroit & Canada Tunnel Co.

MOINET, District Judge.

On petitions filed herein the receiver of the defendant company asserts the illegality of ad valorem real property tax assessments against the defendant’s property for the years 1932, 1933, and 1934 because, principally, of erroneous methods of valuation, gross excessiveness, and unlawful discrimination, in violation of the due process and equality clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The court is asked to determine the amount justly due on account of said taxes and to restrain the collection of such portion of the taxes levied for said years…