Ford Motor Co. v. City of Detroit

The plaintiff, under an agreement entered into with the city of Detroit, acting through its board of water commissioners and confirmed by its common council, for one dollar and other consideration, agreed to construct a 15-foot tunnel from its power plant on the River Rouge to a point south of Jefferson avenue in the city; to erect an intake thereon at that point on land owned by the plaintiff, and to dredge out the “old channel” therefrom to the Detroit river. Its purpose was to secure a supply of water for its manufacturing plant in Dearborn. The third paragraph thereof reads as follows:

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