Union Township v. City of Mount Pleasant

The defendant city’s source of water is located on city-owned land in the plaintiff township. A single water pipeline connects the city to its water source. Desiring to construct another pipeline to its water source, the city obtained permission from the Isabella county road commission to lay the line within the right-of-way of Broomfield road, an Isabella county road which runs through the township, but the city did not obtain the township’s permission. After construction of the pipeline was commenced, plaintiff township filed suit in circuit court and, on its contemporaneously filed motion,…