Legal Opinion
Clayton & Lambert Mfg. Co. v. City of Detroit
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided August 20, 1929No. 3634PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONS, District Judge.
The bill is filed for the purpose of restraining defendant from vacating and closing a portion of French Road in the city of Detroit. Jurisdiction is asserted on the ground of diversity of citizenship and on the ground that defendant’s action is in violation of both the federal and the state Constitutions, in threatening to appropriate private property without due process of law and to impair the obligation of contract. Const. U. S. Amend. 14, and article 1, § 10; Const. Mich. art. 2, §§ 9,16.
The facts, stated as briefly as possible, are as follows:
Complainant owns…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Crane v. HahloSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- City of Chicago v. Union Building Ass'nIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
- Utley v. Taylor & Gaskin, Inc.Michigan Supreme Court · 1943
- Buhl v. Fort Street Union Depot Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1894
- Meyer v. RichmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Fisher v. BeckerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969