Governale v. City of Owosso

Defendant city authorized by ordinance the acquisition and construction of wells and water transmission lines in the spring of 1968. Defendant sought to run raw water mains from wells located on land it owned in the Township of Caledonia past some land owned by plaintiff fronting on Hintz Road. There were two property owners involved in the court below; the Governales and the Jankejes. Each were the owners of about 600 feet of frontage along Hintz Road and the Jankejes have filed this appeal.

Defendant’s engineers, contractors, and apparently its own officers, were under the mistaken…