Case Name: CATHCART vs. TOWNSHIP TREASURER (Merritt)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1878-01-22
Citations: 1 McGrath 1408
Docket Number: 
Parties: CATHCART vs. TOWNSHIP TREASURER (Merritt),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 1408–1408

Head Matter:
CATHCART vs. TOWNSHIP TREASURER (Merritt),
38 M., 243.

Opinion:
To compel the payment of certain ditch- orders, where there was no money in the fund on which they were drawn and the collection of the assessment had been judicially restrained as illegal.
Denied January 22, 1878.
Held, that such orders are not general township charges, and although the assessment was payable into the town treasury, it still remained a separate fund, and such orders could only be paid out of the particular assessments on the credit of which they were drawn.