Independence Township v. Eghigian

Defendant appeals and plaintiff cross appeals from an order of summary disposition entered by the Oakland Circuit Court on April 30, 1986. The instant suit concerns efforts of plaintiff township to prevent defendants from parking a dump truck in the driveway of their home. Defendants’ residence is located in an r-1a single-family residential district.

Defendants have lived in plaintiff township since 1969 at their current address. Beginning in 1971, defendants began parking a 1967 Ford dump truck, weighing 17,000 pounds, in their driveway. Defendants performed routine maintenance at their…