People v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent; McDonald, J. Information by the people of the State of Michigan on the relation of Oramel B. Fuller, auditor general, and Franz C. Kuhn, attorney general, against the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company for an accounting and to collect taxes due and fraudulently withheld. From an order overruling a demurrer to complainant’s information, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
This is a suit commenced in the circuit court for the county of Kent, in chancery, by the people, represented by the auditor general and the attorney general of this State, against the defendant railway company for a discovery and accounting with respect to alleged unpaid taxes by the defendant, extending over the period from the year 1855 up to the commencement of the suit and to foreclose a lien upon defendant’s property for such taxes; and, further, to confirm the action of the auditor general in undertaking to fix the value of the defendant’s capital stock paid in at the time of his…
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