German Lutheran Church Society v. City of Mt. Clemens

The complainants, by their bill of complaint in this cause, seek to restrain the defendant city from collecting that part of a special assessment for the construction of a lateral sewer in Gibbs street, in the city of Mt. Clemens, lying between Dickinson avenue and Judge street, in excess of its actual cost, and to remove the cloud caused thereby from the title to their lands. The sewer in question had. been completed at the time of the filing of the bill, and its entire cost ascertained and paid. It is a small, lateral crock sewer 734 feet long, with four catch-basins. It is 4.71 feet deep…