Meade v. Haines

Defendant was supervisor of the township of Thomastown from April/ 1888, to April, 1889. A bridge had been constructed over the Tittabawassee river by the State Boad Bridge, Company. The township paid this company $7,500 towards the construction of the bridge, and in consideration thereof the company agreed to permit all tax-payers of the town to cross over the bridge free of toll or other charge.

Plaintiff resided in Bichland, an adjoining township, where he owned a farm of 200 acres. On March 16, 1888, he made a contract with one Abbey for the purchase of a strip of land off the east side of…