Detroit Edison Co. v. City of Detroit

In the instant suit plaintiff, a New York corporation authorized to do business in Michigan, sought an injunction enjoining defendant from interfering with or moving plaintiff’s utility (electric) poles except on condition that defendant defray the cost thereof and assume liability for any damage or injury to plaintiff’s user of its alleged easements; and also a determination of the following question:

“Is the city of Detroit liable for necessary expense incurred in the removal and replacing of the plain tiff’s poles in order to enable the city to construct its public sewers along the center…