Heliker v. Oakland County

In the summer of 1917 the highway commissioners of Oakland county were petitioned, under the provisions of the Covert act, to improve a certain highway extending in a northerly direction from the Grand River road through the township of Farming-, ton, a distance of nearly 5 miles. In response to the petition the commissioners laid out the road, created *596a special assessment district, sold the bonds and let the contract. The road was subsequently constructed and the contractor paid. Plaintiff and certain other land owners living in the special assessment district paid their taxes under protest…