People ex rel. Board of Supervisors v. Townships of Porter & Calvin
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus to tbe supervisors of tbe townships of Porter and Calvin, in Cass County, to levy a tax for certain county bonds received by them.
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Mandamus to tbe supervisors of tbe townships of Porter and Calvin, in Cass County, to levy a tax for certain county bonds received by them. In December, 1863, the supervisors of Cass County passed the following resolutions: “ Whereas, By the late proclamation, of the President of the United States, a call has been, made for 300,000 men. for the military service of the United States, to he furnished by volunteering, and in case any deficiency shall exist in the quota assigned to any State, then such deficiency shall he made up by draft, to commence on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1864; and,…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.
These are applications for writs of mandamus to compel certain towns in Cass County to levy such sums as are required to pay principal and interest on certain county bonds alleged to have been lent to the towns upon the condition, afterwards sanctioned by the legislature, that the towns should have the amount apportioned to them as their share of county taxes. The claim made by the respondents, is that all these bonds were properly in fact, as well as in form, merely county obligations, and that the money to pay them should be apportioned upon the property of the entire county by…
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