Balch v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Frazer, J. Mandamus by George W. Balcb and another against the city of Detroit and others to compel the payment of an award for land condemned for street purposes. From an order denying the writ5 relators bring certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Previous to 1895, the right to institute proceedings for taking private property for street and highway purposes, on behalf of the public, was vested in city councils and boards of supervisors under a general law, viz., Act No. 124 of the Public Acts of 1883, and an amendatory act, numbered 48, of the Public Acts of 1887. At its 1895 session, the legislature passed an act, applicable only to the city of Detroit, which, while in the main it followed the provisions of the pre-existing general law, differed from it in important particulars. See Act No. 467, Local Acts 1895. Its first section…
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