Northern Assurance Co. v. Common Council
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Mandamus by the Northern Assurance Company of Michigan against the common council of the city of Detroit to compel respondents to strike relator’s assessment from the tax rolls. An order granting the prayer of relator’s petition is reviewed by respondents on writ of certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
The relator seeks by this proceeding to compel the respondents to strike from the tax rolls *81of the city of Detroit for the year 1912 certain real estate mortgages of the value of $55,450, upon which it claims to have paid the specific tax under Act No. 91 of the Public Acts of 1911. The relator is a domestic insurance company, and the statutory directions for ascertaining its personal property assessment is as follows:
“In computing the taxable property of insurance companies organized under the laws of this State, the value of the real property on which a company pays taxes shall be deducted…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Union Trust Co. v. Common CouncilMichigan Supreme Court · 1912
- Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance v. HartzMichigan Supreme Court · 1903
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