Salt Co. v. East Saginaw
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Michigau; the case being thus: The East Saginaw Salt Manufacturing Company tiled a hill in the court below against the city of East Saginaw, in Michigan, to restrain the city from levying and enforcing any tax on certain real estate owned in the said city by it, and for a decree establishing the exemption claimed.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Michigau; the case being thus: The East Saginaw Salt Manufacturing Company tiled a hill in the court below against the city of East Saginaw, in Michigan, to restrain the city from levying and enforcing any tax on certain real estate owned in the said city by it, and for a decree establishing the exemption claimed. The company founded its exemption on an act passed by the legislature of Michigan, on the 15th of February, 1859, for encouraging the manufacture of salt. The act was as follows: “Section 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, that all companies…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
It is unnecessary at this time to discuss the question of power on the part of a State legislature to make a contract exempting certain property from taxation. Such a' power has been frequently asserted and sustained by the decisions of this court. *
The question in this case is, whether any contract was ¡mulo at all; and, if there -was, whether it was a coutract determinable at will, or of perpetual obligation ?
Had the plaintiff' in error been incorporated by a special charter, and had that charter contained the provision, that all its lands and property used in the manufacture of salt should…
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