Hendershott v. Rogers

To reduce a curve in State trunk line highway, M 50, in Jackson county, defendant, • State highway commissioner, sought to take land of plaintiff pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 852, Pub. Acts 1925, entitled “An act to provide for the purchase and condemnation of private property for public highway purposes.” Defendant determined conclusively the necessity of taking the property without giving the plaintiff notice of the purposed determination and without affording him thereon a hearing, an opportunity to defend, and in this regard defendant followed, substantially, the provisions of…