CITY OF DETROIT v. COMM'R OF REVENUE

Calendar No. 44,964.

330 Mich. 239 (1951)

47 N.W.2d 4

CITY OF DETROIT v. STATE COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Writ denied April 3, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul T. Dwyer, Acting Corporation Counsel, and Helen W. Miller, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for plaintiff.

Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Elbern Parsons, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Phillip J. Glennie, City Attorney, Alpena.

David L. King, City Attorney, Bay City.

Fred N. Searl, City Attorney, Grand Rapids.

Stanley Draganski, City Attorney, Hamtramck.

Alvin G. Dahlem, City Attorney, Jackson.

William A. Ewart, City Attorney, Pontiac.

Vincent Nash, City Attorney, Saginaw.

Charles B. Cozadd, Attorney for Village of Wayne.

Ralph F. Finley, City Attorney, Berkley.

Julius L. Berns, for the Village (City) of Grosse Pointe Woods.

Russell A. Searl, City Attorney, East Lansing.

Russel J. Comer, Corporation Counsel for Taylor Township, Wayne County.

Frederic J. Keppen, City Attorney, Lincoln Park.

Carl B. Weymouth, City Attorney, East Detroit.

George A. Weins, City Attorney, Ypsilanti.

Jesse W. Bollinger, for the City of Garden City, Village of Inkster and the Township of Dearborn, Wayne County.

Arthur E. Moore, City Attorney, Huntington Woods.

W.C. Hudson, City Attorney, Royal Oak.

Daniel W. Ross, for City of Belleville and Van Buren Township, Wayne County.

Dale H. Fillmore, Corporation Counsel, City of Dearborn.

Robert E. Childs, and Joel K. Underwood, of counsel.


DETHMERS, J.

Plaintiff seeks mandamus in this Court to compel defendants, until such time as the final 1950 census figures are promulgated by the director of census, to make the State's 1950 and later distributions of sales-tax and intangibles-tax collections to local governmental units on the basis of the 1940 Federal decennial census, in accord, as plaintiff contends, with the pertinent provisions of the Constitution and...

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