Teagan Transportation Co. v. Board of Assessors
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Mandell, Frazer, Brooke, Donovan, Rohnert, and Hosmer, JJ. Separate applications for mandamus by the Teagan Transportation Company, the Duluth & Atlantic Transportation Company, and the Wolverine Steamship Company to compel the board of assessors of the city of Detroit to strike certain assessments from the tax rolls. To review orders denying the writs, relators bring certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Writs of certiorari bring before us for review three mandamus proceedings determined in the circuit court for the county of Wayne. Each of the above-named relators is a corporation engaged in transporting goods by water, and each asks for a mandamus (which the lower court refused to grant) compelling respondent to strike from the assessment rolls an assessment on account of certain steamboats owned by it. Said steamboats during the season are engaged in navigating the Great Lakes, and are seldom in the city of Detroit. In the articles of incorporation of the first two relators the township of…
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