Soncoff v. City of Inkster

This appeal encompasses three separate lawsuits which were consolidated for trial, decision, and appeal. These actions challenge the validity of certain special assessments made by the defendant city in 1968 to finance improvements on Inkster Road and Cherry Hill Road. The facts, basically agreed, upon by the parties, reveal the following:

In determining the assessments along Inkster Road, a total footage was utilized that was the sum of the assessable public and private lands abutting Inkster Road. Excluded from this figure was the footage contained within the intersections of abutting…