Calumet & Hecla, Inc. v. Township of Allouez

Plaintiff sued in assumpsit 1 to recovei a portion of its 1957 taxes paid under protest. The taxes were assessed upon plaintiff’s mineral properties located in defendant township of Allouez, in Keweenaw county. Circuit Judge Leo J. Brennan entered a -judgment in plaintiff’s favor, after trial without a jury, for $9,510.53, the amount by which lie found plaintiff’s taxes to exceed the maximum amount for which it could be assessed legally.

Plaintiff, to sustain its judgment, urges upon us a construction of section 24 of the general property tax law 2 (CLS 1956, § 211.24 [Stat Ann 1960 Rev §…