Robinson v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Donovan, J. Bill by Fred A. Robinson and' others against -the city of Detroit, Francis A. Blades, city controller, and. Louis B. Littlefield, city treasurer, to enjoin tifie payment of salaries to certain municipal officers. From a decree dismissing the hill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
The bill in this case was filed to enjoin the defendants from paying salaries to certain, officers, the appointees of the common council, where the items therefor had been expressly disallowed, and so certified, by the board of estimates in referring the city’s budget to the common council, to be spread upon the rolls for taxation for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1895.
Sections 155 and 157 of the compilation of the charter of the city of Detroit for the year 1893 (Act No. 488, Local Acts 1887, chap. 8, §§ 1, 3, pp. 625, 628) provide:
“Before any taxes shall be levied for the purposes of…
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