Consumers Power Co. v. County of Muskegon

{dissenting). This is one of those cases where the uncritical use of precedents which are not precedents leads, .to a grotesque result.’. Here a taxpayer, by reason.of-arithmetical mistakes by a town: *252ship supervisor, paid substantially 10 times as much tax as was properly due and owing. Illustrative of the errors committed, we note the following from the facts stipulated:

“The correct amount of tax upon the personal property of the plaintiff in defendant, Fruitport Rural Agricultural School District, for the year 1952, computed upon the total valuation of $59,274 at the rates allocated to the…