Hazel Park Nonpartisan Taxpayers Ass'n v. Township of Royal Oak

In 1940 plaintiffs Hazel Park Nonpartisan Taxpayers Association and John Gr. Campbell' filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court for Oakland county in chancery to enjoin the township of Royal Oak from collecting any taxes on property in said township lying outside of certain special assessment districts, for the purpose of paying in-stalments on certain refunding bonds issued by the township in 1938 to retire certain defaulted special assessment bonds issued in 1926,1927 and 1928. The then Michigan public debt commission, now the municipal finance CQmmission, which had authorized the…