Starr v. Shepard
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Calhoun; Hopkins, J. Bill by Marshall H. Starr and others against Thomas 'Book Shepard and others to restrain the removal of certain property. From a decree for complainants, defendant Shepard appeals.
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Appeal from Calhoun; Hopkins, J. Bill by Marshall H. Starr and others against Thomas 'Book Shepard and others to restrain the removal of certain property. From a decree for complainants, defendant Shepard appeals. The principal facts, briefly stated, are as follows: In .December, 1901, defendants Steudell, Peavy, and Pang-burn filed articles of association as “The Sanitary My-Food Company, Limited,” in which articles the character of the business to be conducted was stated to be “to own the necessary lands, buildings, and other property, construct the necessary buildings, manufacture, and…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
(after stating the facts). As to the last proposition of defendant, viz.: That the tax sale and title thereunder were not shown to be invalid, it seems a sufficient answer to say that the sale of property carried on the assessment roll at a valuation of $8,000 to satisfy a tax of less than $200, and the further fact that the title to the property assessed was not acquired by the Sanitary My-Food Company until after the time fixed by law for the completion of the assessment roll, are ¿wo facts which are made affirmatively to appear, and in the absence of explanation and of proof of the…
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