CONTINENTAL MOTORS CORP. v. MUSKEGON TWP.

Docket No. 18, Calendar No. 46,678.

346 Mich. 141 (1956)

77 N.W.2d 370

CONTINENTAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. TOWNSHIP OF MUSKEGON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy (Victor W. Klein and Clifford W. Van Blarcom, of counsel) and Joseph T. Riley, for plaintiff Continental Motors Corporation.

Charles K. Rice, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Lyle M. Turner, Attorney in Department of Justice, Wendell A. Miles, United States Attorney, and Robert J. Danhof, Assistant United States Attorney, for intervening plaintiff United States of America.

Charles A. Larnard, for defendant Muskegon Township.

Robert A. Cavanaugh, for intervening defendant Muskegon County.

Street & Sorensen (Harold M. Street, of counsel), for intervening defendant Orchard View Rural Agricultural School District.


CARR, J.

This case involves the validity of the 1953 assessment, under the general property tax law* of Michigan, of certain real estate in defendant township. The facts are not in dispute. In 1943 one of the parcels of land assessed was conveyed to Defense Plant Corporation, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and in 1945 like conveyance of the second parcel was made. The grantor named in each conveyance was Continental...

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