Chandler v. Dix
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This bill is not artificially drawn, but' we take it to be primarily, at least, a bill to remove a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title ,to certain lands which have been sold for taxes, brought upon the ground that the tax laws of Michigan for a series of years named Were unconstitutional and deprived the plaintiff of his property contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. The Circuit Court dismissed the bill on demurrer and the plaintiff appealed. The diémissal was so plainly right that it is less •necessary than otherwise it might be- to pick out and analyze the meagre allegations of fact from the…
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