City of Detroit v. Beecher
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from the recorder’s court of Detroit. (Gartner, J., presiding.) Proceedings to open a street. Proceedings affirmed, except as to three parcels, for which nominal damages were allowed, and as to these a new appraisement is ordered. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
In this case we are asked to review the proceedings, as far as the rights of the respondents are concerned, in the matter of opening and extending Eleventh street from Leverett street to Michigan avenue in the city of Detroit.
The street opening was intended to be conducted under Act No. 124, Laws of 1888, as amended by Act No. 48, Laws of 1887.
In the first place the constitutionality of the law is attacked on several grounds:
First. The act is framed so ambiguously that the jury are not required to determine upon the necessity of the proposed improvement, but only on the necessity of taking…
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