Heinrich v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff, Edgar William Heinrich, appeals as of right from the trial court’s finding of no cause of action in favor of codefendants City of Detroit and Detroit Board of Education.

Plaintiff brought an action in inverse condemnation against defendants, alleging that various individual and joint acts by the defendants in the management of an urban renewal project affected his property so adversely as to amount to a de facto taking without just compensation.

Plaintiff owned a building on Canfield in the City of Detroit. In late 1962, the city approved a massive urban renewal plan, entitled,…