Dickinson v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Carpenter, J. Bill by Horace H. Dickinson against the city of Detroit and Albert Stoll, receiver of taxes, to restrain the collection of a 'paving tax. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Washington avenue is a street in the city of Detroit, and is 200 feet wide between lot lines. Many years ago, under an ordinance passed in the year 1860, this street was paved with block stone, such pavement being laid to the width of 40 feet through the middle of the street. In the year 1895 the common council caused the stone pavement to be taken up, and a strip of ground 100 feet wide through the middle of the street was appropriated to the purpose of a street park, on each side of which a driveway 25 feet wide was made of asphalt. This, improvement was assessed as a paving improvement…
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