Wallace v. Sortor

The complainant being the treasurer of the township of Raisinville, in the county of Monroe, was required to collect the taxes levied in 1881. He found upon the roll a distinct and special charge against each of the defendants Sortor, on account of a drain or ditch then recently made. They respectively refused payment, and he seized certain property of each to compel it. They sev*160erally denied liability upon the ground that the tax was illegal. But in order to save their property from sale, they paid under protest, and each brought his separate action against the complainant to recover back…