Fuller v. City of Grand Rapids

The bill in this case was filed to enjoin the sale of real estate in satisfaction of a paving assessment. The amount for which the city claims a right to sell is less than one hundred dollars, and it is made a ground of defense that the amount • involved is not sufficient to give the court jurisdiction. But the jurisdiction, where the title to or enjoyment of one’s real estate is in question does not depend on the- amount of the claim asserted against it, but upon the value of the land itself. This we have often decided in unreported cases, and the principle of the case of White v. Forbes,…