Attorney General ex rel. State Highway Commissioner v. Macomb County Drain Commissioner

This is an appeal from a circuit court affirmation of the Macomb county intracounty drainage board’s final order of apportionment for the Ten Mile drain, under chapter 20 of the drain *211code of 1956, as amended,1 by which order the State was charged 9.585% of the estimated cost of the drain.

In the case of In re Petition of Macomb County Drain Commissioner, 369 Mich 641, 651, this Court held that a fair reading of chapter 20, “imposes a duty on an objector who says his assessment is too high to establish by some proof the approximate lesser amount he would have the board lay upon him.” In that…