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KNIGHT NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 4,821.

16 Mich. App. 438 (1969)

168 N.W.2d 318

KNIGHT NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. CITY OF DETROIT

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Murray and Brownson Murray, for plaintiff.

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, Julius C. Pliskow and Arthur Yim, Assistants Corporation Counsel, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, and Aloysius J. Suchy and William F. Koney, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for defendants.

Amicus Curiae: The Evening News Association (by Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy [Philip T. Van Zile, II, of counsel]).

BEFORE: FITZGERALD, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and BRONSON, JJ.

R.B. BURNS, J.

Plaintiff's newspapers are printed on paper stock called newsprint, 99% of which is imported from Canada. On December 31, 1964, tax day for the assessment of 1965 personal property taxes, plaintiff had on hand in the original package 2,304 tons of imported newsprint. Defendant assessed the entire stock of newsprint. The Michigan State tax commission affirmed this assessment. Plaintiff claimed that 1,178...

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