Collins v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Sullivan, J., presiding. Bill by Thomas H. Collins and others against the city of Detroit and others to have certain annexation proceedings declared void and for other relief. From a decree for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
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Appeal from Wayne; Sullivan, J., presiding. Bill by Thomas H. Collins and others against the city of Detroit and others to have certain annexation proceedings declared void and for other relief. From a decree for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. The bill in this case is filed for the purpose of testing the validity of certain annexation proceedings by means of which, at the November election in 1915, certain territory in the townships of Greenfield, Hamtramck, and Gratiot was added to the city of Detroit. The complainants are residents of, and two of them are electors in, the city of Detroit.…
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
(after stating the facts). Counsel for appellants argue three propositions as follows:
“(1) The annexation proceedings are invalid because the question of annexation was not so submitted to the voters as to indicate that the annexation was not to make the territory a part of the city for the purpose of representation in the State legislature, and that the boundaries of representative districts were not to be changed thereby.
“(2) The annexation statute is invalid because it does not secure to the electors in annexed territory the right to vote after annexation.
“(3) The annexation proceedings…
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