Legal Opinion

Simpkins v. Ward

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 13, 1881PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Marquette. Injunction to restrain tax sale. Dismissed on demurrer, but without prejudice.

1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.

The complainants are owners of large bodies of wild land situated within the limits of the township of *560Michigamme as at present organized. The lands are from two to twenty miles remote from any settlement and are as yet a part of a vast unbroken wilderness. After the township of Michigamme was organized the school inspectors proceeded to form school-district number one, embracing the village of Michigamme in sections nineteen and thirty of town forty-eight N., in range thirty W., and other lands immediately contiguous.

The district authorities subsequently converted it into a graded…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. FreemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1845

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Ex Parte FlakeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911
  2. Ira School District No. 1 Fractional v. Chesterfield School District No. 2 FractionalMichigan Supreme Court · 1954
  3. Keweenaw Ass'n v. School-District No. 1Michigan Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Ira Sch. D. v. Chesterfield Sch. D.Michigan Supreme Court · 1954
  5. Board of Supervisors of Presque Isle County v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1894

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