Scofield v. City of Lansing
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal iu Chancery from Ingham Circuit. The bill in this canse was filed to restrain the City of Lansing from collecting a tax for grading a street fronting eomplainan ts’ premises.
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Appeal iu Chancery from Ingham Circuit. The bill in this canse was filed to restrain the City of Lansing from collecting a tax for grading a street fronting eomplainan ts’ premises. The bill set forth that the complainants, fifty-nine in number, were owners' of certain real estate in the City of Lansing, lying adjacent to and fronting on Cedar street, and a road in continuation thereof; and that they petitioned to the Common Council of said city to grade a certain portion only of said street. The following proceedings of the Common Council sufficiently present the facts upon which the case…
1Opinion of the Court
CURTSTIANCY J.
The bill in this case is filed against the ■ City of Lansing, and Lewis C. Loomis, their treasurer and collector, by fifty - nine separate owners of real estate situate adjacent to, and fronting on Cedar street, and the road in continuation thereof, in said city, to restrain the collection of a tax upon the lands of the several complainants along said street, for grading the same: the tax being charged to be illegal, and to constitute a cloud upon the titles of complainants.
The defendants demurred to the bill, and the demurrer was sustained in the court below.
The first ground…
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