Carbonneau Industries, Inc. v. City of Grand Rapids

STARR, Senior District Judge.

The plaintiff corporation filed a complaint in this court alleging that the defendant city illegally assessed and levied taxes on plaintiff’s personal property for the years 1955 through 1958; that such assessments and levies were in violation of § 1 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and Art. 10, §§ 3 and 7 of the Constitution of the State of Michigan; and that such assessments and levies constituted a fraud on the plaintiff. In its complaint the plaintiff asks this court to enjoin the collection of the allegedly illegal and excessive…