Thomson v. City of Dearborn

Plaintiff filed bill of complaint in propria persona to have decreed “illegal and void” ordinance No. 51-659 of the city of Dearborn, as amended, and to have enjoined the defendant city’s disbursement of tax moneys for the operation of the housing bureau established by such ordinance. It is alleged (and denied by the city) that the expenditure of the funds for the operation of the housing bureau “is an illegal expenditure” and “that the ordinance is illegal and is without authority in that it proposes a proprietary function and has no statutory authority for its existence.”

The case was never…