Detroit Trust Co. v. City of Detroit

Defendants seek review by writ of error of a summary judgment rendered in favor of plaintiffs for $680,980.43, this being the amount of a personal property tax spread upon the city assessment roll in the year 1925, and interest thereon, against the plaintiffs as trustees under the will of the late John F. Dodge, which was paid by the plaintiffs under protest.

Counsel for the city insisted in its plea and notice and affidavit of merits, filed on the motion, that the court was without jurisdiction to enter a summary judgment on plaintiffs ’■ cause of action. The statute (3 Comp. Laws 1915, §…