Bloomfield Estates Improvement Ass'n, Inc. v. City of Birmingham

737 N.W.2d 670 (2007)

BLOOMFIELD ESTATES IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Defendant-Appellant.

Docket No. 130990. Calendar No. 1.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Argued April 10, 2007.

Decided July 18, 2007.

Kemp, Klein, Umphrey, Endelman & May, P.C. (by Raymond L. Morrow and Ronald S. Nixon), Troy, for the plaintiff.

Beier Howlett, P.C. (by Timothy J. Currier and Jeffrey S. Kragt), Bloomfield Hills, for the defendant.

MARKMAN, J.

We granted leave to appeal to consider: (1) whether the use of a park as a "dog park" violates a deed restriction limiting use of the land…