SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9, PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP v. WASHTENAW COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Calendar No. 46,361.

341 Mich. 388 (1954)

67 N.W.2d 165

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9, PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, WASHTENAW COUNTY, v. WASHTENAW COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Writs granted November 29, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mann, Lipnik & Darrow (Richard J. Mann and Arthur E. Carpenter, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Edmond F. DeVine, Prosecuting Attorney, for defendant Board of Supervisors of Washtenaw County.

Arthur C. Lehman, for defendant Pittsfield township supervisor.

William R. Kelley, for defendant clerk and assessor of city of East Ann Arbor.

Amici Curiae:

Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and T. Carl Holbrook and William D. Dexter, Assistants Attorney General, for the State.

Gerald K. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, Hobart Taylor, Jr., and Philip A. McHugh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys (Albert E. Champney, of counsel), for Wayne County.

Roscoe O. Bonisteel and Roscoe O. Bonisteel, Jr., for Michigan Education Association and Michigan Association of School Boards.

Charles A. Larnard, for Michigan State Association of Supervisors.


CARR, J.

This mandamus proceeding involves, generally, the amount of money that may be raised by taxation in plaintiff school district for the fiscal year 1954-1955. The matter has been submitted on plaintiff's petition, the answers of the defendants thereto, and the briefs of counsel representing the respective parties. The Court has had also the benefit of briefs submitted by others, interested in the questions involved in the controversy and in related questions...

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