Pioneer Fuel Co. v. Molloy
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Delta; Stone, J. Replevin by the Pioneer Fuel Company against John Molloy, marshal of the city of Gladstone. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed.by the court, plaintiff brings error.
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Error to Delta; Stone, J. Replevin by the Pioneer Fuel Company against John Molloy, marshal of the city of Gladstone. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed.by the court, plaintiff brings error. Plaintiff contended that the provision of Act No. 349, Bocal Acts 1897, purporting to authorize the marshal of the city of Gladstone to collect taxes (section 15, page 206), was in violation of Const, art. 4, § 25, inasmuch as the title and enacting clause of said act indicated an intention to amend section 15 of chapter 29 of the charter, relating to “the assessment and collection of…
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This is an action of replevin for a quantity of coal, which was seized by the defendant, as marshal of the city of Gladstone, for a personal tax that had been assessed upon the roll of that city for the year 1900. The assessment is made to “J. M. Beattie, agent for the Pioneer Fuel Company.” The tax extended is $964.58. As the case stood at the close of the testimony, there was, in addition to the facts of the assessment and the seizure by the marshal, evidence that the coal, which was assessed in the manner above stated, was not the property of the plaintiff, but was the property of the Erie…
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