Youngblood v. Sexton
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Superior Court of Detroit.
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley, J:
The bill in this cause was filed to restrain the collection from the several complainants of a tax assessed against them separately, in respect to the business in which each is engaged. It is a personal tax purely. It was decided at an early day in this state, that equity had no jurisdiction to restrain the collection of a personal tax, even conceding it to be illegal; the ordinary legal remedies being ample for the party’s protection.—Williams v. Detroit, 2 Mich., 560. The principle has ever since been regarded as not open to controversy in this state, and it was applied without…
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