Allen v. Stockwell
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Oakland; Covert (Frank L.), J. Mandamus by Edwin T. Allen to compel Ross Stock-well and others, constituting the Oakland county plat board, to approve a plat. From an order denying the writ, plaintiff brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
In this proceeding plaintiff seeks to compel the defendants to approve a plat. The court below refused the writ of mandamus for the reasons hereinafter stated. The plaintiff has brought certiorari. The governing statute is Act No. 251 of the Public Acts of 1915 (1 Comp. Laws 1915, § 3350 el seq.).
The plat which it is sought to have approved by the defendants, constituting the Oakland county plat board, is a plat of land situate and being in the city of Pontiac, and when presented to such plat board had not been approved by the commission of the city of Pontiac, or the auditor general of the…
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