Michigan Land & Iron Co. v. Township of L'Anse

Plaintiff paid under protest a large-amount levied for highway tax for 1884 in the defendant township. No action had been taken by the electors, or by *702the township board, on the subject. The supervisor, on the faith of what was alleged to be the action of the highway ■commissioner, levied a money tax on plaintiff’s lands of half ■of one per cent. These lands were in what had been set apart as a road district; but it contained no inhabitants and no overseer, and there were no highways in it, and there have been pone since. The commissioner made no assessment, and all that appears in writing is…