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COUNTY OF WAYNE v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 203397.

590 N.W.2d 619 (1998)

233 Mich. App. 275

COUNTY OF WAYNE, Petitioner-Appellee, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 29, 1998, at 9:30 a.m.

Released for Publication March 12, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Granholm, Corporation Counsel, and Mary M. Nassar, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for the county of Wayne.

Kasiborski, Ronayne & Flaska (by Chester E. Kasiborski, Jr., and John J. Ronayne, III), and City of Detroit, Law Department (by Stuart Trager and Dennis M. Taubitz), Detroit, for the city of Detroit.

Before O'CONNELL, P.J., and GRIBBS and TALBOT, JJ.

O'CONNELL, P.J.

This case presents the question whether the doctrine of res judicata operates to prevent a party from renewing a cause of action before the state Tax Tribunal where the tribunal resolved the identical controversy for the identical parties in an adjudication concerning an earlier tax year. We hold that it does.

At issue is the Wayne County Building, at 600 Randolph in Detroit, and whether respondent city of Detroit may assess taxes against it...

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