Riggs v. Board of Education

The bill in this cause was filed to prevent the erection of a public library upon a space of ground of a triangular shape, bounded by Gratiot, Farrar, and Farmer streets, in Detroit, and spoken of as “Centre Park,” in section seven of said city. Complainant avers that she owns a house and lot, which she purchased and erected under the belief that the land was to be continued as a park.

*263The bill contains a recital of many facts, upon some of which we have information as recognized or fixed by public laws. The history of the parcel of land referred to appears* to be substantially this:

In 1807,…