Evensen v. City of Detroit

Nils Evensen and wife, plaintiffs, are the owners of lot 40 of Oscar LeSure’s subdivision of sections 19 and 30, Greenfield Township, town 1 south, range 11 east, in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The property has a frontage of 100 feet on Stansbury avenue, and a depth of 330 feet. Through condemnation proceedings to open and widen Schoolcraft avenue, the city acquired the southerly 68.79 feet of lot 39, which is immediately north of and abuts the plaintiffs’ lot. The city, however, laid out School- craft avenue as a 40-foot street, paved the street, and huilt a six-foot sidewalk three feet…