Case Name: ROBERTS v. DENIO
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1898-11-15
Citations: 118 Mich. 544
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBERTS v. DENIO.
Judges: The other Justices concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 118
Pages: 544–544

Head Matter:
ROBERTS v. DENIO.
Taxes — Seizure oe Personalty — Replevin.
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.
Error to Sanilac; Beach, J.
Submitted October 19,. 1898.
Decided November 15, 1898.
Replevin by William Roberts against George Denio. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff brings error.
Affirmed.
Gates & Bajpley, for appellant.
W. H. Burgess and William Dawson, for appellee.

Opinion:
Grant, C. J.
Defendant 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.
Judgment affirmed.
The other Justices concurred.