Bay City Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Lind

The city of Bay City was recently engaged in installing a new water system. It owned the necessary property on the shore of the bay. To reach that property it was obliged to traverse the township of Bangor with a water pipe. Plaintiffs were engaged in laying that water pipe for the city. They laid several hundred feet in the highway, which extended from the city to and through the township. It was laid about 12 feet east of the traveled way and interfered in no way with travel. Defendants, after 5 o’clock one evening, hitched farm tractors to the pipe and pulled it out. The defendants are the…