Anderson v. Board of County Road Commissioners

Defendants appeal from a decree voiding assessments for improving a public highway and permitting recovery of sums paid. The proceeding was voidable ab initio for want of sufficient signatures of owners of lineal frontage.

Defendants contend that, under the statute, 1 Comp. Laws 1929, § 4381, and holdings in McDermott v. Board of County Road Com’rs of Kent County, 199 Mich. 613; Cummings v. Garner, 213 Mich. 408; Heliker v. Oakland County, 216 Mich. 595; Auditor General v. Union Lake Land Co., 239 Mich. 437, and decisions like Township of Norton v. Cockerill, 265 Mich. 405, upon comparable…