Township of Marathon v. Township of Oregon
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lapeer Circuit. The township of Oregon, by act of the Legislature of 1846, was organized from territory constituting a part of the township of Marathon.
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Error to Lapeer Circuit. The township of Oregon, by act of the Legislature of 1846, was organized from territory constituting a part of the township of Marathon. In March, 1856, as claimed by the plaintiff, a joint meeting of the township boards of the two towns was had, for the purpose of ajiportioning the debts of the township of Marathon, at the time of the formation of Oregon therefrom; which meeting found due from the latter township to the former, as its proportion of such indebtedness* 61,488, to recover which this action was brought. Judgment having beén rendered for the defendant in…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J,:
This suit is brought to recover an ascertained sum found by the united action of the township boards to be due from Oregon to Marathon, upon a division of the latter township, whereby the former was set apart and became liable for its share of the debts to be thus determined:— Comp. B. 247-8.
Putting aside, for the present, all questions concerning the regularity or sufficiency of the proceeding's of the local authorities, the important consideration is suggested, whether an action will lie for the sum ascertained. Townships may be sued in some cases, and judgments obtained against…
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