State Highway Commissioner v. Detroit City Controller

In 1945, the State highway commissioner, herein referred to as the commissioner, the Wayne county board of road commissioners, herein referred to as the county, and the city of Detroit entered into a contract for the construction of 2 limited access highways, herein referred to as the projects, within the city of Detroit. One project, known as the John C. Lodge Expressway, was to begin a short distance from the Detroit river, near Woodward avenue, and run in a more or less northerly and northwesterly direction into a divided 8-lane highway in the northwestern part of the city. The other…