Jackson v. City of Detroit

Campbell J.:

A hill was filed in this cause setting up that an assessment has been made and is about being enforced against complainant, for paving in front of his property on Washington Avenue in the city of Detroit. The objections urged against the validity of the assessment are based upon certain provisions of the charter, whereby the powers of the city are limited, and certain rules are laid down for governing the management of public expenditures.

The principal objections urged were, that under the charter all work of the kind in question must be done by the lowest bidder, who puts in…