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IN RE APPEAL OF GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Calendar No. 6, Docket No. 50,629.

376 Mich. 373 (1965)

137 N.W.2d 161

In re APPEAL OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION. CITY OF LIVONIA v. STATE TAX COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 4, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Smit, City Attorney, subsequently Steve Polgar, City Attorney, and Milton I. Firestone, Assistant City Attorney, for plaintiff City of Livonia.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, T. Carl Holbrook and William D. Dexter, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant State Tax Commission.

Aloysius F. Power, Donald K. Barnes, and Thomas J. Hughes, for cross-appealing taxpayer, General Motors Corporation.

Amicus Curiae:

Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, Aloysius J. Suchy and William F. Koney, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys (Albert E. Champney, of counsel), for County of Wayne.

Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill (Charles L. Levin, of counsel), for Pavilion Apartments, Inc.

ADAMS, J.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from the State tax commission's determination of General Motors' 1963 personal property assessment in Livonia. The city assessor used the taxpayer's original book costs as a beginning point and assessed the property at $26,603,790. He did so according to certain percentage rates or formulas recommended by Wayne county which he purportedly used as a uniform method to assess all personal property in the city. The assessment...

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