Northville Coach Line, Inc. v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff filed its complaint on August 13, 1964, in the Wayne circuit court, seeking an injunction restraining the city of Detroit and its Department of Street Railways from transporting-passengers for hire from the Detroit city limits to the city of Livonia. The trial court granted Michigan Motor Bus Association’s motion for leave to intervene.

Defendant moved for the entry of an accelerated judgment as a matter of law. In passing on this motion, the trial court denied plaintiffs’ request for injunctive relief on two grounds: First, that the home rule act1 authorized the city of Detroit so…