Cheney v. City of Detroit

In 1921 the city of Detroit paved that part of Grand River avenue lying between the Joy road and Wyoming avenue. A special assessment district was created of the property benefited and an assessment was made to cover the cost. Plaintiffs, who own' property within the special district, seek, by their *295bill, to enjoin the collection of the tax. Their claim is that in 1914, when this portion of Grand River avenue was in the township of Greenfield, it was improved by an 18-foot concrete pavement, by order of the county commissioners, and its cost was met by a bond issue of Wayne county. It is…