Butler v. City of Detroit

The bill in this case was filed to restrain the sale of certain lots of. complainant on Michigan avenue, in the city of Detroit, for an assessment for repaving that avenue. The case is so presented as to raise only three questions, and while it is claimed other grounds of illegality exist, we are not called on to consider them. For the purposes of the present suit, therefore, the parties assume that the common council had power to order the repaving, and has only failed to provide for it in a legal manner. The inquiry is narrowed very-materially.

The three objections relied on are, first, that…