Letourneau v. Erickson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Bay; Collins, J. Eminent domain proceedings by Carl Erickson, highway commissioner of the township of Greenfield, Bay county, against Nelson Letourneau and others for the taking of private property for a public highway. From a determination of the commissioner laying out the highway and assessing damages, the respondent named appealed to the township board and later to the circuit court. Judgment establishing the highway; respondent brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
This case involves proceedings taken under Act No. 283, Public Acts of 1909 (1 How. Stat. [2d Ed.] § 2173 et seq.), to lay out a highway in the township of Garfield, Bay county, Mich., under an application, dated February 11, 1912, signed by a proper number of qualified freeholders, describing the proposed highway applied for as follows:
“Commencing at the northwest corner of section 1 of said township of Garfield, being town 16 north, range 3 east, and running thence south along the section line between sections 1 and 2 of said township to where it intersects the east and west quarter line of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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