Forster v. Brown
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Menominee; Stone, J. Replevin by Charles Gf. Forster and Matthew A. Burns against Franklin H. Brown, city treasurer of Menominee, to recover property seized under a tax warrant. From a .judgment for defendant, plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This is an action of replevin. The defendant, as treasurer of the city of Menominee, seized the property in controversy by virtue of a tax warrant directed to him. An assessment appeared on the roll against the plaintiffs on 12,000,000 feet of lumber, said to belong to the S. K. Martin Lumber Company, of Chicago, stated in the assessment, as it appears on the roll, to be situated on the mill yard and docks occupied and under the control of Forster & Burns (plaintiffs).
The evidence shows that on or about, and under date of, the 28th day of November, 1896, the mill where said lumber was sawed,…
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