Township of Lebanon v. Burch
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Clinton. (Smith, J.) Bill to remove encroachment from highway. Defendant appeals. The facts ax-e stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
A bill in equity was filed in the circuit court for the county of Clinton to remove a fence alleged to be an encroachment on a highway. The court *643granted a decree varying in extent from the case made by the bill. Defendant appeals, claiming that the suit was not maintainable in equity on the record, and that the decree was not correct on any ground.
The bill set up the ownership by defendant and by her grantors of the E. of the N. E. J of section 17, in town 8 N., of range 4 W.; that as early as 1855 a four-rod wide highway was laid east and west, taking two rods in width of the north end of…
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