Curtis v. Township of Richland

The plaintiff brings suit to recover back taxes paid under protest in the township of Richland, in *479which lie resides. The taxes were laid upon an assessment of $25,000, upon dioses in action to the value of near $35,000, which at the time were in the hands of agents at Petoskey, and, as he claims, assessed for taxation there. The assessment at Petoskey was but $5000, and that and-the Pichland assessment, when combined, were not excessive. But plaintiff claims that under the statute there was no right to tax him at all for these securities in Bichland while they were held by his agents in…