Allen v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Murphy, J. Bill by Mark W. Allen and others against the city of Detroit and others for an injunction restraining defendant city from erecting a fire station on property restricted to residences only. Bill by Edward Frumveller against Hoyt Post and others for the specific performance of a land contract. The two causes were consolidated and heard as one.
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Appeal from Wayne; Murphy, J. Bill by Mark W. Allen and others against the city of Detroit and others for an injunction restraining defendant city from erecting a fire station on property restricted to residences only. Bill by Edward Frumveller against Hoyt Post and others for the specific performance of a land contract. The two causes were consolidated and heard as one. From a decree granting the injunction to said Allen as against defendants the city of Detroit and others, defendant city of Detroit appeals. Affirmed. From a decree dismissing the second bill, complainant Frumveller appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
By consent of all parties in interest, the two above-entitled suits were simultaneously heard in the trial court upon the same evidence; it being conceded that they involved substantially the same facts and related to the same property. By further stipulation they have been presented to this court for joint hearing and determination on the same record, and argued together.
The proposed construction of a fire engine house by the city of Detroit on land located contiguous to or near that of complainants’ gave rise to this litigation. The city of *467Detroit has appealed from a decree of the Wayne…
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