Celeron Island Corp. v. Grosse Ile Township

Grosse Ile Township is made up of a rather large island called Grosse Ile, of about 5,704 acres, together with several smaller islands which surround it. One of the islands south and a little west of Grosse Ile is known as Celeron Island. It consists of about 184 acres of which about 124 are above water. Natural or semi-natural canels run *572through it. It is owned by the Celeron Island Corporation, a Michigan corporation, which plans to subdivide and develop the island for summer residence use in the form of summer cottages and recreational uses incident thereto.

On October 27, 1914, the Wayne…