Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 60Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1888 |
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... pay for services rendered - In absence of express contract for payment , competent to show that such was not the custom of the corporation - Individual recognition by trustees of plaintiff's claim , inadmissible . CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS ...
... pay for services rendered - In absence of express contract for payment , competent to show that such was not the custom of the corporation - Individual recognition by trustees of plaintiff's claim , inadmissible . CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS ...
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... payments , not jurisdictional - To be taken advantage of on review or appeal - Substituted service - Statutory ... Payment of taxes , as evidence of claim of title - Adverse posses - sion Statute of limitations . CURTISS , MCKINNEY ...
... payments , not jurisdictional - To be taken advantage of on review or appeal - Substituted service - Statutory ... Payment of taxes , as evidence of claim of title - Adverse posses - sion Statute of limitations . CURTISS , MCKINNEY ...
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... payment from liquor - tax fund - Payment of tax under protest - Protestant , in suit to recover tax , confined to objec- tions specified - Increased tax levy caused by illegal expenditures during previous year , not for that reason ...
... payment from liquor - tax fund - Payment of tax under protest - Protestant , in suit to recover tax , confined to objec- tions specified - Increased tax levy caused by illegal expenditures during previous year , not for that reason ...
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... Payment from of note signed by husband and wife - Given for money received by husband and his family when their needs were pressing - If paid by wife after husband's death , without undue influence , such payment voluntary . TOWLE ...
... Payment from of note signed by husband and wife - Given for money received by husband and his family when their needs were pressing - If paid by wife after husband's death , without undue influence , such payment voluntary . TOWLE ...
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... Payment of under protest - Protest does not give cause of action - Illegality of the tax does - Protest determines time from which recovery may be had , and when statutory limitation begins to run - Does not make payment involuntary ...
... Payment of under protest - Protest does not give cause of action - Illegality of the tax does - Protest determines time from which recovery may be had , and when statutory limitation begins to run - Does not make payment involuntary ...
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