Brill v. City of Grand Rapids

A decade ago this Court reported unanimously its theretofore carefully considered opinion of Fluckey v. City of Plymouth (Jan. 4, 1960), 358 Mich 447. By purposeful design that opinion set forth at length specific passages of an unusually able analysis which, for the case, had been prepared by the Honorable Victor J. Baum, of the third circuit. It was thought at the time that Judge Baum’s decision, and ours in turn, would provide a firm precedent for holding that the pavement-widening to double-width of what theretofore had been a comparatively quiet residential street, the salient purpose of…