Barnes v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff Barnes is the owner of an undivided two-fifths interest as a tenant in common in certain realty in the city of Detroit, which he and his wife occupy as their homestead. The other three-fifths undivided interest is owned by appellant’s wife, who acquired the property by separate conveyance from the former owners and paid for her interest with her own funds. The board of assessors of the city of Detroit determined the valuation of this piece of property to be $13,630. The plaintiff is a partially-disabled veteran who is claiming the $2,000 homestead tax exemption, granted in CL 1948,…