Northwestern Manufacturing Co. v. Chambers

Delator, being a corporation engaged in making oleomargarine and butterine in the city of Detroit, proceeded, on the taking effect of Act No. 186 of the Public Acts of 1885, to surrender to the sheriff of Wayne county its. machinery and apparatus and outfit, and applied to respondent under section 9 of the statute, to have its value assessed by a jury, for the purpose of getting pay for it from the State. The judge refused the application, on the ground that he did not consider the act valid. Application is made to us for a mandamus to compel him to proceed with the assessment. We intimated…