Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. v. Frugé

This matter is before us on the plaintiff’s application for supervisory relief.

The plaintiff, a natural gas company, filed some ten expropriation suits in connection with the construction of a pipe line planned to be placed in service by September 1, 1967. The trial court denied the plaintiff’s motion to fix these cases for trial during July and August of 1967.

The plaintiff applies to this court for supervisory relief, urging the necessity for immediate trial of the suits and further contending that the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to hear the expropriation cases until…