Beniteau v. City of Detroit

This is a ease appealed in equity from the Superior Court of Detroit. The bill was filed to restrain an assessment made for grading, paving and *117curbing of a portion of Hastings street, because of errors which were supposed to invalidate it. The proceedings were governed by the act amendatory of the charter of Detroit, approved April 5, 1869 (3 Sess L. 1869, p. 1686), and the objections made to them will be examined in their order.

First. It is said that an assessment district was not properly established by the common council, and consequently, under the rule laid down in Motz v. Detroit, 18…