Godkin v. Township of Doyle
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Schoolcraft; Steere, J. Assumpsit by John Godkin against the township of Doyle for taxes paid under duress of levy. There was judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Th© plaintiff brought assumpsit against the defendant for $494.96, with interest, upon the claim that the amount stated was paid by him to defendant’s .treasurer “under duress of levy” on his property, under and by virtue of a supplemental warrant issued by the county treasurer in March, 1904, for a tax assessed in 1903. Being defeated, he has appealed.
It is admitted that the tax was assessed, and the tax roll seasonably delivered to the treasurer, who failed to collect the tax during the life of the warrant. It is claimed that he wrote to the plaintiff at Bay City and threatened to levy on…
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