Steckert v. City of East Saginaw
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Saginaw Circuit. • The bill in this cause was filed by Frederick A. Koehler, Jacob Steckert, Jay S. Curtis, John H. McFarlin, Frederick Hubert, John McKay, John Gallagher, William Gallagher, William Lloyd, Freeman G. Casey, DeWitt C, Gage, 'Ashael Jackson, Sarah L. Warford, Michael Jeffers, Solomon B. Bliss and Moses B. Hess, in the Circuit Court for the county of Saginaw, in chancery, against the city of East Saginaw, Charles V. DeLand, Controller,…
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Appeal in Chancery from Saginaw Circuit. • The bill in this cause was filed by Frederick A. Koehler, Jacob Steckert, Jay S. Curtis, John H. McFarlin, Frederick Hubert, John McKay, John Gallagher, William Gallagher, William Lloyd, Freeman G. Casey, DeWitt C, Gage, 'Ashael Jackson, Sarah L. Warford, Michael Jeffers, Solomon B. Bliss and Moses B. Hess, in the Circuit Court for the county of Saginaw, in chancery, against the city of East Saginaw, Charles V. DeLand, Controller, and Gilbert B. Chandler, Marshal of the city, to restrain the collection of an assessment levied by the city authorities…
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
This is a bill to restrain the collection of an assessment for paving Washington street, in the city of East Saginaw, with what is known as the Nicholson pavement. The complainants are owners of lots in said city upon which the *106assessment is a lien, and they ask for a perpetual injunction against its collection upon the ground that the proceedings to levy it have not been in accordance with the charter of the city, which prescribes the several steps to be taken in such cases.
The first ground of alleged invalidity in the proceedings is that the several votes in the common council ordering the…
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