Wolverine Sign Works v. City of Bloomfield Hills

Clara E. Benedict, the owner of a tract of unplatted, vacant and unimproved property, fronting on Woodward avenue in the city of Bloomfield Hills, in February, 1927, rented billboard location space to plaintiff Wolverine Sign Works and three billboards have been erected thereon; two 52 feet in length and 16 feet in heig'ht, inclusive of four feet of ornamental lattice work and eight inches of open space at the bottoms. These boards stand back about 50 to 100 feet from the highway line and from 600 to 800 feet from Miss Benedict’s home, the nearest building. Another and smaller billboard is…