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FORD MOTOR COMPANY v. CITY OF WOODHAVEN

Docket Nos. 127422, 127423, 127424. COA No. 4.

716 N.W.2d 247 (2006)

475 Mich. 425

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. CITY OF WOODHAVEN, and County of Wayne, Respondents-Appellees. Ford Motor Company, Petitioner-Appellant, v. City of Sterling Heights, Respondent-Appellee. Ford Motor Company, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Township Of Bruce.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 28, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn L.L.P. (by John D. Pirich, Jeffrey A. Hyman, Michael B. Shapiro, and Daniel L. Stanley), Lansing, for the petitioner.

Johnson & McPherson, P.L.C. (by Dale T. McPherson), Grosse Pointe Farms, for the city of Woodhaven.

Adem E. Elder and Richard G. Stanley, Detroit, for Wayne County.

O'Reilly Rancilio P.C. (by Robert Charles Davis and Ralph Colasuonno), Sterling Heights, for the city of Sterling Heights.

Seibert and Dloski, P.L.L.C. (by Lawrence W. Dloski), Mt. Clemens, for Bruce Township.

James P. Hallan, Lansing, for Michigan Retailers Association.

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

These cases call on this Court to interpret the meaning and applicability of the phrase "mutual mistake of fact" as it is used in MCL 211.53a. In each of these cases, petitioner Ford Motor Company (Ford) filed a personal property statement with the appropriate taxing jurisdiction, the respective respondents. But Ford misreported some of the information in its personal property statements. Because respondents' assessors accepted and relied on...

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