Walker v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Rohnert, J. Bill by Bryant Walker, administrator de bonis non with, the will annexed of the estate of Joseph A. Moross, deceased, against the city of Detroit and another to cancel and set aside a sewer assessment. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
This suit was brought in March, 1898, to set aside and cancel a sewer assessment on certain lots, situated in the block bounded by Woodward, Milwaukee, and Cass avenues and the Boulevard, in Detroit, made in 1894. The grounds were: (a) The assessment was levied on each lot in the proportion which its area bears to the total area of all lots assessed, and that, owing to the shape and situation of these lots and t the uses to which they are or can be put, and the fact that one had sewer connection before, an assessment so levied is not in proportion to the benefits; (5) notice of ordering…
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