Emmet County Board of Supervisors v. Ridout

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the argument home-rule authority gave the county attorney the power to collect a debt the county was not authorized to collect under the Code
• stating that to prove a novation, the following elements must be shown by clear and convincing evidence, “(1) a previous valid obligation; (2) agreement of all the parties to the new contract; (3) extinguishment of the old contract; and (4
• rejecting the argument home-rule authority gave the county attorney the power to collect a debt the county was not authorized to collect under the Code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).