Michigan Sanitarium & Benevolent Ass'n v. City of Battle Creek
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Calhoun; Winsor, J. Assumpsit by the Michigan Sanitarium & Benevolent Association against the city of Battle Creek for taxes paid under protest. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Plaintiff brings this suit to recover from defendant city taxes for the year 1899 on its real estate, which it claims was exempt from taxation, and which it paid under protest. Plaintiff recovered a verdict and . judgment in the court below, and defendant asks a reversal of that judgment on many grounds.
1. The declaration consists of the common counts and two special counts. Many of defendant’s complaints are based upon the proposition that plaintiff’s cause of action is not properly described in the special counts. We are spared the trouble of considering these complaints, because plaintiff…
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