McKee v. City of Grand Rapids
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from superior court of Grand Rapids; Newnham, J. Bill by James H. McKee and others against the city of Grand Rapids to abate an alleged nuisance. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal.
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Appeal from superior court of Grand Rapids; Newnham, J. Bill by James H. McKee and others against the city of Grand Rapids to abate an alleged nuisance. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal. The issues in this case are well stated in the opinion of the court below as follows: “In the original bill of complaint it is claimed that the complainants J. H. McKee and James Landon McKee are the owners in fee simple of certain property which adjoins the said steamboat channel, and that by virtue of their possessing the title to said premises they have riparian rights in said…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). The issues in this case are those of fact, rather than law. Counsel for complainants in their brief say:
“We assert that the city of Grand Rapids created and maintained this nuisance by emptying sewage at first directly into this channel, and afterwards by negligently permitting it to flow through the sluiceway into the channel; and also by the improper dumping of garbage and *208filth along the bank of the channel. We also complain of its action in filling and causing or permitting to be filled in portions of the east channel, including the turning basin. If the…
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