Board of Education v. City of Dearborn

Plaintiff sought vacation of a part of Haggerty avenue in the city of Dearborn in order to increase the size of its property fronting thereon by the acquisition of certain lots across the street therefrom. Its petition therefor to the common council of defendant city was denied.

The question here presented is whether such action on the part of the council was an abuse of the discretion vested in that body by the law. Tomarzewski v. Palmer Bee Co., 223 Mich. 565; In re Spears, 227 Mich. 525; In re Petition of Hendricks to Vacate Street, 251 Mich. 336. In the first of these cases it was said:

“In…