Coit v. City of Grand Rapids
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to superior court of Grand Rapids; Burlingame, J. Assumpsit by Charles W. Coit, individually, as executor, and as assignee of Elizabeth O. Haines, against the city of Grand Rapids, to recover taxes paid under protest. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
The common council of the defendant city is, by its charter, given the exclusive control over the construction and maintenance of sewers. It is also clothed with the express power to purchase lands for that purpose. Charter, tit. 3, § 10, subds. 39, 76 (Act No, 270, Local Acts 1891). The common council deemed it necessary for the public health that the Prescott-street sewer be extended so as to empty into Grand river at a greater distance below the city than it then did. The proposed extension was for 80 rods, across lands owned by the plaintiffs. These lands were low (from 7 to 14 feet below…
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