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DOOLEY v. CITY OF DETROIT

Calendar Nos. 53, 54, Docket Nos. 49,973, 49,954.

370 Mich. 194 (1963)

121 N.W.2d 724

DOOLEY v. CITY OF DETROIT. POINDEXTER v. SAME.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 9, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Dunn and Thomas C. Mayer (Platt & Platt, John H. Yoe, and Thomas P. Casey, of counsel), for plaintiffs Dooley and others.

Thomas L. Poindexter, in propria persona (Myer Miller, Ralph H. McIntyre, David I. Berris and Morris H. Berris, of counsel), for plaintiff Poindexter and others.

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, John H. Witherspoon, Edward M. Welch, Robert D. McClear, and John D. O'Hair, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendants.

SOURIS, J.

By today's decision we uphold the validity of Detroit's income tax ordinance.1 The only other city in Michigan which previously had attempted to raise revenues for municipal purposes by taxing incomes was Saginaw, whose submission to electors of a proposal authorizing an income tax was declared invalid by this Court in 1952 in House v. City of Saginaw,

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