Frischkorn Investment Co. v. City of Detroit

The city of Detroit, defendant, was confronted with the problem of devising a means of enabling vehicular traffic from the east or west side of the city to reach the other side, without passing through the congested downtown business district in the center of the city. The city plan commission had found that before the downtown stores were open for business in the morning, crosstown traffic began to open at one side and out of the other at the rate of 14,000 vehicles per hour, and that a steady stream of traffic continued throughout the day. . In accordance with a petition bearing sufficient…