CITY OF DETROIT v. MURRAY CORPORATION OF AMERICA

No. 12678.

234 F.2d 380 (1956)

CITY OF DETROIT and County of Wayne, Appellants, v. The MURRAY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a Delaware corporation, Appellee, and United States of America, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Foley, Detroit, Mich., Gerald K. O'Brien, Hobart Taylor, Jr., Philip A. McHugh, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for Wayne County.

Julius C. Pliskow, Detroit, Mich., Paul T. Dwyer, Bert R. Sogge, Vance G. Ingalls, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for City of Detroit.

Victor W. Klein, Detroit, Mich., Wm. M. Saxton, Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for Murray Corp.

Lyle M. Turner, Washington, D. C., Charles K. Rice, Lee A. Jackson, Hilbert P. Zarky, Erwin A. Goldstein, Washington, D. C., Jerome S. Hertz, Mount Rainier, Md., Fred W. Kaess, John L. Owen, Detroit, Mich., on brief, for the United States.

Before ALLEN and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and STARR, District Judge.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

In three separate actions consolidated on this appeal, brought by The Murray Corporation of America in which the United States of America intervened, the District Court awarded summary judgments in favor of the plaintiff in the total amount of $76,748.47 against the City of Detroit covering personal property taxes illegally collected in two installments for the year 1952 and for $14,116.30 against the...

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