Tivey v. People ex rel. Townsend North
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Tuscola Circuit. February 10th, 1855, an act was passed by the Legislature, providing that, for the purpose of improving a highway from Lower Saginaw to the village of Vassar, in Tuscola county, and from thence to some point to be selected near the center of town ten north of range eight east, with branches to the village of Goodrich, and to the village of'Lapeer, all the -non-resident highway taxes which should be assessed within the limits of the surveyed…
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Error to Tuscola Circuit. February 10th, 1855, an act was passed by the Legislature, providing that, for the purpose of improving a highway from Lower Saginaw to the village of Vassar, in Tuscola county, and from thence to some point to be selected near the center of town ten north of range eight east, with branches to the village of Goodrich, and to the village of'Lapeer, all the -non-resident highway taxes which should be assessed within the limits of the surveyed townships, through or into which such highway should pass, excepting the south half of the township of Tuscola and certain other…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.:
The non-resident highivay taxes which the township treasurer was, by the mandamus, commanded to pay over to the relator, were not raised by virtue of the act of February 10th, 1855, but were assessed and collected under the general highway tax law; and this general law, but for the act of 1855, required the money to be expended in the several road districts, in which and for which it was raised. The act of 1855 undertook to divert the tax, after it should be collected, from the purposes for which it was assessed, and to authorize its expenditure in any part of the county upon…
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