First National Bank v. Township of St. Joseph

The township of St. Joseph sued the plaintiff in error for the tax due on shares of William E. Higman for the year 1880, and recovered judgment therefor, which now comes up on error. The tax is resisted partly for alleged insufficiencies in the proceedings, and partly because it is insisted the tax is invalid entirely.

It is claimed the tax collection was illegally extended. It appears that there was no township clerk, and that at a meeting of the board one Junius H. Hatch, a justice of the peace, being summoned to be present as a member, was appointed to act as clerk or secretary, and in that…