Sheley v. City of Detroit

This is a bill to restrain the collection of a pavement tax. Complainant is owner of a lot on Woodward avenue, in the city of Detroit, which has been paved and *432repaved several times, sometimes at the expense of abutting owners and sometimes not, according as the law in force at the time provided. Complainant avers that he has paid two assessments for repaving which were levied on the owners of abutting property. In 1879 the common council passed resolutions for repairing and repaving a section of this avenue, including that portion upon which complainant’s lot abutted, at the expense of the…