Sawyer-Goodman Co. v. Township of Crystal Falls

Plaintiff sued in the Marquette circuit to recover taxes paid under protest. Apart from some rulings on the sufficiency of the protest, which become unimportant, inasmuch as the judge found fully on the merits, the objections assigned concerning the validity of the taxes relate to the inequality of the assessments, and the illegality of the highway assessments. Some questions were argued on both sides as to the legality of raising town taxes for certain purposes named. There is some doubt how far these are included in the assignments of error, but as both parties SO' dealt with them, they…