Legal Opinion

Rogers v. Weakley

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 3, 1929No. Docket No. 46, Calendar No. 33,995Published

1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.

William J. Weakley and Marian G. Weakley, landowners, review by certiorari, proceedings to condemn their land, in Bloomfield township, Oakland county, for the purpose of a public highway, known as Telegraph Road.

The amount of land taken is 6.34 acres. It lies, diagonally across landowners’ parcel of nearly 59 acres. The value of land taken was testified to be from $5,072 to $9,510.

The evidence of the landowners is that the damage to the remainder of their land by reason of the construction of the road and at a grade for the greater part considerably above the grade of the land, would be…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. In Re Petition of RogersMichigan Supreme Court · 1928
  2. In re Open & Widen Willis AvenueMichigan Supreme Court · 1885
  3. Marquette & Southeastern Railway Co. v. LongyearMichigan Supreme Court · 1903
  4. State Highway Commissioner v. BreisacherMichigan Supreme Court · 1925

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