Henkhaus v. Barton

Plaintiffs appeal the trial court’s granting of defendants’ motion to dismiss. The issue is the sufficiency of the complaint to state a cause of action in a declaratory judgment case.

Plaintiffs filed a complaint for declaratory judgment, temporary restraining order, injunction and other relief as a class action in December of 1975. The suit was “on behalf of all individual John Doe plaintiff [sic] who are owners of real estate in Alhambra Township” and “whose property and tax liabilities were affected” by the allegedly “wrongful acts of the Board of Review and the Supervisor of Assessments of…