Turnbull v. Township of Alpena

Plaintiff brought this action of assumpsit against the defendant township to recover certain moneys claimed to have been paid by him as taxes under protest. The tax was paid February 34, 1888, to release his property from a claimed levy made by the treasurer of defendant under the authority of a warrant attached to his tax roll for the year 1887.

Upon the trial plaintiff claimed as one ground of recovery that the personal property, consisting of pine logs and cedar posts and ties, assessed to him upon said roll at a valuation of $17,000, was not legally assessable in defendant township at all,…