City of Pontiac v. Axford

(Minority Opinion.) Axford was sued by the city of Pontiac to recover taxes assessed against hint on personal property. His defence was chiefly based on the-invalidity of the tax. The objection chiefly urged was that the common council of Pontiac do not appear from the x-eeord of their doings to have passed any of the x*esolutions ¡xecessaxy to male the tax valid in the manner pointed out by the charter, which requix*es that “ the votes of all thexnexnbers of the coxximon council in relation to any act, px'oeeediixg or propositioxx had at any xneeting shall be entered at large in the…