Detroit Trust Co. v. St. Clair Heights Syndicate Ltd.

The controversy Is between appellant Detroit Trust Company, as trustee-mortgagee in real estate mortgage to secure a bond issue, and appellee St. Clair Heights Syndicate, Ltd., owner of the property secured by the mortgage. In a condemnation proceeding in the city of Detroit the jury returned a joint verdict for damages for taking part of the premises and did not “apportion and award to the parties in interest such portion of the compensation as it shall deem just,” as the city charter provides (title 8, chap. 1, § 8). The verdict was entered February 16, 1932.

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