Legal Opinion
Twenty-Two Charlotte, Inc. v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided September 6, 1940No. Docket No. 82, Calendar No. 41,035PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtButzel, J.
Plaintiff filed a bill to enjoin the collection of the 1938 real-estate tax on its property in the city of Detroit, on the ground that the assessment valuation was based on a fundamentally wrong-method which was deliberately arbitrary and in plain violation of the Federal and State Constitutions. Plaintiff offered to do equity by tendering its alleged proper tax (Merrill v. Humphrey, Auditor General, 24 Mich. 170; Birmingham v. Oakland County Supervisors, 276 Mich. 1). The trial judge adopted the findings of fact and law of the circuit court commissioner to whom the case was referred, and the…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Olson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Sunday Lake Iron Co. v. Township of WakefieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. BrowningSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. BabcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Fargo v. HartSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
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3Cited by38 opinions
- W. T. Grant Co. v. SrogiNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- CAF Investment Co. v. State Tax CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1974
- Hamilton v. AdkinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
- Harry B. Helmsley v. City of Detroit, Michigan, a Municipal Corporation of the State of MichiganCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1963
- Fisher-New Center Co. v. State Tax CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1968
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