City of Detroit v. Detroit City Railway Co.

Judgment in trespass was rendered against,the city of Detroit for removing the track of the defendants in error, on their refusal to do so when a portion of Jefferson Avenue was ordered to be repaved. The questions presented are whether certain parts' of the tracks laid in 1869, under an agreement or ordinance of *5591862 exempting defendants from expense of materials in repaving the avenue, and allowing them to maintain one of their tracks in the centre of the street and another to the north of it, are by subsequent transactions required on repaving to be placed equi-distant from the centre;…