Sawicki v. City of Harper Woods

This is a class action by taxpayers of assessment districts in the city of Harper Woods to recover assessments claimed to be in excess of the cost of the improvement.

Plaintiffs are residents of Harper Woods and own real property there which was subjected to special street paving assessments between 1957 and 1960. The city and its manager and treasurer during that period are defendants.

Defendants included in the estimated cost of the improvement 5% of the contractor’s bid price for engineering and 3% for supervision, inspection, and testing services performed by its engineering department, and…