Attorney General ex rel. Bissell v. Burrell
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Kalamazoo Circuit. * This was a bill in the nature of an information, by Byron D. Ball, the Attorney General, in behalf of the people, on the relation of Edward A. Bissell, a tax-payer of Richland, in. the county of Kalamazoo, against the township treasurer and the supervisor of said township, and the trustees of the First Presbyterian society of Richland, to restrain and enjoin said treasurer and his successors from paying the: sum of two hundred and…
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Appeal in Chancery from Kalamazoo Circuit. * This was a bill in the nature of an information, by Byron D. Ball, the Attorney General, in behalf of the people, on the relation of Edward A. Bissell, a tax-payer of Richland, in. the county of Kalamazoo, against the township treasurer and the supervisor of said township, and the trustees of the First Presbyterian society of Richland, to restrain and enjoin said treasurer and his successors from paying the: sum of two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents to the said trustees of the church, being the balance of tlie sum of three hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.
The question of the raising of the tax for the purchase of the piece of land in question having been submitted to the electors at their annual meeting, and they having voted to raise it for that purpose, and there being nothing to show that the relator or any other elector voted against, or opposed the raising of the tax for the purpose; and the Presbyterian society having, on the faith of said vote, and of the levying of said tax, and the order of the township board for the payment to them of the money, executed and delivered to the township their deed of conveyance of the land, and all the…
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