Dix-Ferndale Taxpayers' Ass'n v. City of Detroit

The “questions involved” in this case are stated by counsel for appellants in their brief as follows:

“1. A highway was widened in such a manner as to result in no benefit up to the present time to property included in the special assessment district. The evidence showed no condition now existing from which it can be inferred that a future benefit will arise. Are such assessments legal upon the theory that benefits might possibly accrue in the future?

“2. If the assessing officers, iff good faith, regard as probable, benefits to the extent’ and in the proportion that they lay a special…