City of Detroit v. State Commissioner of Revenue

Plaintiff seeks mandamus in this Court to compel defendants, until such time as the final 1950 census figures are promulgated by the director of census, to make the State’s 1950 and later distributions of sales-tax and intangible s-tax collections to local governmental units on the basis of the 1940 Federal decennial census, in accord, as plaintiff contends, with the pertinent provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State, which read as follows:

“There shall be returned to local governmental units and school districts by the method hereinafter set forth, one cent of a State sales tax…