Case ID: mich_214/html/0093-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sharpe, J. Fellows, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MASTERS v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ALGER COUNTY.
    Counties — Right of County to Furnish Abstracts.
    This case is controlled by Thomas v. Board of Supervisors of Wayne Co., ante, 72.
    
    Appeal from Alger; Fead (Louis FI.), J.
    Submitted June 9, 1920.
    (Docket No. 17.)
    Decided April 6, 1921.
    Bill by Wallace H. Masters and others against the board of supervisors of Alger county and the county of Alger to enjoin the maintenance of a tract index and the furnishing of abstracts of title to land. From a decree for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
    Reversed, and bill dismissed.
    
      R. W. Nebel and E. A. Macdonald (Beaumont, Smith & Harris, of counsel), for plaintiffs.
    
      Berg, Clancey & Randall (Matthew H. Bishop, Thomas G. Long and William L. Carpenter, of counsel), for defendants.
   Sharpe, J.

In this case an injunction is sought by plaintiffs, who are taxpayers of the county of Alger, to restrain the defendant board from expending money in causing a tract index or set of abstract books to be compiled in that county. It presents a .similar question to that decided in Thomas v. Board of Sup’rs of Wayne Co., ante, 72, and is ruled thereby.

The decree entered is reversed, and one may be entered here dismissing the bill of complaint, with costs of both courts to defendants.

Steere, C. J., and Moore, Stone, Clark, and Bird, JJ., concurred with Sharpe, J.

The late Justice Brooke took no part in this decision.

Fellows, J.

(dissenting). For the reasons stated, by me in Thomas v. Board of Sup’rs of Wayne Co., ante, 72, I dissent from the conclusion reached by Mr. Justice Sharpe.