Hunt v. State Highway Commissioner

A court of equity speaks from- this record in favor of individuals and against an executive officer of our State government. Another court, sitting correspondingly in chancery on appeal, reviews the same record to determine but one encompassing question: whether the decree pronounced below is in accord with principles and maxims of equity. Such is our exordium of approach to a case where one of the parties claims he is immune from the ordinary processes of equity.

Plaintiffs Hunt were — and yet remain so far as the record discloses — owners of certain., business property situated in Muskegon…