Attorney General ex rel. Beadle v. Arnott
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Chippewa; Steere, J. Mandamus by John E. Bird, attorney general, on the relation of Charles S. Beadle, to compel John E. Arnott, city assessor, and the board of review of the city of Sault: Ste. Marie, to place certain corporate property upon the-tax roll. There was an order denying the writ, and relator brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The attorney general applied to the circuit court for a mandamus to compel the local assessor at Sault Ste. Marie to assess the property of the Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, situated in that city, upon the same basis as other property. The writ was denied upon the hearing, and the relator has brought the proceeding to this court by certiorari. The right of the relator to such an order depends upon the construction or validity of the law under which said power company was organized, viz., Act No. 39, Pub. Acts 1883, as amended by Act No. 93, Pub. Acts 1887, and Act No. 231, Pub. Acts…
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