People ex rel. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common Council

The act relating to a public park for the city of Detroit, approved April 15, 1871 (Laws 1871, Vol. 2, p. 1822), created a board of park commissioners, with power and authority to adopt plans for a public park, or boulevard, or both, with the necessary avenues or approaches thereto, for the use of the city of Detroit, and for those purposes to select the needful lands either wholly or in part, within the city or any of the adjacent townships, and to make conditional contracts therefor subject to ratification by the common council and a vote of a citizens’ meeting. All purchases for the…