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118 Mich. 544

Roberts v. Denio

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1898

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1898-11-15

<p>Taxes — Seizure oe Personalty — Replevin.</p> <p>Plaintiff, in replevin for property taken under a tax warrant to satisfy a tax levied in pursuance of a law of the' State, cannot go behind the warrant and show the invalidity of the tax.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1911

1 state decisions

Relies on Curtiss v. Witt · Boyce v. Peterson

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Affirmed · Decided 1898-11-15

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Grant, C. J.

¶1Defendant was the treasurer of the village of Sanilac Center for the year 1897, and had a warrant for the collection of taxes, valid upon its face. He levied upon personal property to satisfy a tax assessed against the. plaintiff. Plaintiff brought this action of replevin, claiming the right to go behind the warrant and show the invalidity of the tax. The court entered judgment for the defendant. The suit is within the expressed prohibition of the statute, and cannot be maintained. 2 How. Stat. § 8318; Boyce v. Peterson, 84 Mich. 490; Curtiss v. Witt, 110 Mich. 131. This case is not within the few which have sustained the action of replevin when the tax was not levied in pursuance of any law of this State. These cases will be found cited, and the distinction shown, in Curtiss v. Witt.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

The other Justices concurred.
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