Abar v. City of Detroit

Plaintiffs had judgment for recovery of paving assessments paid by them, on the ground that the highway paved is a boulevard and, under the charter of the city of Detroit, no special assessment for its paving may be levied. Blanchard v. City of Detroit, 253 Mich. 491.

In 1914, Charles F. Lohrman presented to the township board of the township of Greenfield, in the county of Wayne, a plat of a subdivision on which Magnolia boulevard appeared 82 feet wide and 1,000 feet long. It ran from Wyoming avenue easterly to a railroad right of way. It was saved from forming a cul-de-sac on the east by a…