Bakker v. Fellows
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ottawa; Padgbam, J. Certiorari by Jacob Bakker and Fred Bakker against Edwin Fellows, drain commissioner, and Edward P. Kirby, probate judge, to review proceedings for the establishment of a drain. There was judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
This is a cause in which we are asked to review drain proceedings, and we take this opportunity to commend counsel for the exceptionally clear and concise manner in which both record and briefs present the meritorious questions involved.
An application was duly filed with the drain commissioner on February 15, 1907. It appeared to be signed by 10 persons, alleged to be freeholders of the proper township, and it alleged that 5 of these, naming them, were owners of land liable to be assessed for the proposed drain. On March 28, 1907, the commissioner filed his first order of determination, and…
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