Johnson v. City of Inkster

This is an action to enjoin collection of a special assessment for the widening of a section of Middlebelt Road levied against lots on residential streets having an outlet on the widened thoroughfare.1

The project was designed to eliminate traffic bottlenecks in the cities of Inkster and Westland caused by Middlebelt being narrower in those cities than it is to the north and south; the road was two lanes wide in Inkster and Westland, four lanes on the north and five lanes on the south. Safer and better access to Middlebelt is the special and peculiar benefit that assertedly justifies requiring…