Van Horn v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Livingston. Complaint against defendant, as supervisor, for refusing and neglecting to ascertain the number of dogs in his township liable to taxation, and to make a duplicate list of their owners showing the number of dogs kept by each and the amount for which he was to be taxed therefor. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
The defendant holding the office of supervisor refused to execute the statute of 1877 (Public Acts of 1877, p. 239) and for such delinquency was prosecuted and convicted under the eighth section. The case was then certified to this court for review on exceptions. The scheme embodied in the statute is intended to compel those who own and keep dogs to provide a common fund for repairing or at least mitigating such losses as are inflicted by those animals by wounding and destroying sheep. It was not necessary for the face of the enactment to explain the proneness of dogs to such mischief. The…
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