Laubach v. O'Meara
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Kent; Grove, J. Benjamin Laubach and John Germain, as drain commissioners of the counties of Kent and Allegan, respectively, applied to the circuit court for a writ of mandaauub to compel Michael J. O’Meara, clerk, and James S. Toland, supervisor, of the towuship of Byron, Kent county, to lay a certain drain assessment before the board of supervisors. Respondents bring certiorari to review an order granting the writ.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker,, J.
The defendants are, respectively, township, clerk and supervisor of Byron township, Kent county;, and the relators are, respectively, drain commissioners, of the counties of Kent and Allegan. Having taken proceedings to lay out a drain known as the “Byron and Dorr County Drain,” they delivered the special assessment rolls to the township clerks of the respective townships of Byron and Dorr. The taxes were duly assessed and collected in Dorr township, but respondent O’Meara wrote to the relators to the effect that the township board refused to spread the assessment on the roll of…
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