People ex rel. French v. Township Board of Springwells
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to the township board of Springwells. Certain freeholders of Springwells made an application in due form of law for the laying out of a highway in said township, extending from a certain point north of the Detroit & Toledo Railroad southerly across said road and Fort street to the River Rouge.
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Certiorari to the township board of Springwells. Certain freeholders of Springwells made an application in due form of law for the laying out of a highway in said township, extending from a certain point north of the Detroit & Toledo Railroad southerly across said road and Fort street to the River Rouge. The commissioners of highways, after due notice, met to consider the application, and decided that the road as applied for was1 only necessary as far as Fort street; and ordered it laid out and established to that street and no further. The relators,, who were owners of a lot north of Fort…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
The complaint against the action of the highway commissioners is, that they laid out a part only of the highway asked for. They should have laid out the whole of the road asked for or no part of it. We think the statute is clear on this point. It provides that, when any seven or m»re freeholders of a township shall wish to have a highway in any township, not included within the corporate limits of a city or village, laid out, altered or discontinued, they may, by writing under their hands, make application to the commissioners of highways of the township for that *436purpose, who shall…
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