Cook v. Kent County Board of Canvassers
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Certiorari by Percy T. Cook against the Board of County Canvassers of Kent County, to review the action of said board in declaring the result of an election relative to the annexation of certain territory to the city of Grand Rapids, and returning that the vote was in favor of annexation. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
This is an action in which the plaintiff by writ of certiorari sought to review the action of the defendant board in its canvass and return upon the question as to the annexation of certain territory to the city of Grand Rapids under section 9 of Act No. 279, Pub. Acts 1909 (1 Comp. Laws 1915, § 3812). The pertinent facts appear to be as follows:
On September 12, 1914, there was filed with the clerk of Kent county a petition for the submission of the question of annexation of certain territory in the townships of Paris and Wyoming to the city of Grand *151Rapids. After said petition was filed and…
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