Monroe v. Greenhoe

Plaintiffs, who are a firm of partners doing business in Spring Lake, Ottawa county, replevied from defendant certain lumber which he had seized in the town of Evergreen, Montcalm county, for taxes levied on this same lumber, and for similar taxes levied on certain other lumber, which ho claimed plaintiffs were bound to pay.

The first tax was levied against plaintiffs by their partnership name upon a large pile of lumber, piled up near a mill owned by J. M. Weatherwax, and previously sawed by him for plaintiffs. This sawing was done under a contract by which Weatherwax was to remove the timber…