CONTINENTAL MOTORS CORP. v. MUSKEGON TWP.

Calendar No. 49, Docket No. 50,503.

375 Mich. 13 (1965)

133 N.W.2d 163

CONTINENTAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. TOWNSHIP OF MUSKEGON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph T. Riley (Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy, Clifford W. Van Blarcom and Philip T. Van Zile II, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Louis F. Oberdorfer, United States Assistant Attorney General, Lee A. Jackson, I. Henry Kutz, and Robert A. Bernstein, Department of Justice, George E. Hill, United States Attorney, and H. David Soet, Assistant United States Attorney, for intervening plaintiff United States of America.

Charles A. Larnard, for defendant township.

Poppen, Street & Sorensen, for intervening defendant school district.

Harry J. Knudsen, Prosecuting Attorney, for intervening defendant county.

Harold M. Street, of counsel for defendant and intervening defendants.


BLACK, J.

It is conceded that on the tax day of 1958 plaintiff Continental was in possession of certain personal property belonging to the United States. It is conceded also that such personal property was not at the time taxable, by force or authority of Michigan law or otherwise. Assessment thereof — for 1958 — was nonetheless made and levy confirmed under the forms and procedures of the general property tax act.1 Plaintiff...

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