City of Grand Rapids v. Burlingame

The relator filed in the superior court of Grand Rapids a petition for the condemnation of all the rights of the Grandville Pland-Road Company in certain of the streets and highways of the said city, in the petition described. Summons was issued to the defendant, requiring it to appear and answer. Defendant appeared specially, and on the 21st day of September, 1892, the city attorney moved the court for an order directing the sheriff to write down the names of 24 disinterested freeholders of said city for the purpose of striking a jury *470therefrom. Defendant company, by its attorneys, filed…