Johnson v. City of Inkster

I dissent.

Plaintiff Willie Johnson initiated this action as representative of a class of similarly situated property owners subject to a special assessment levied by the City of Inkster to finance a portion of its share of the cost of widening Middlebelt Road. The assessment district consisted of nonabutting interior residential property on each side of the improved portion of the road, extending approximately halfway to the next major north-south street parallel to Middlebelt.

The distinguished trial judge, James Montante, sustained the assessment, finding it to be not in contravention of…