1426 Woodward Avenue Corp. v. Wolff

In this case the appellants challenge the validity of an ordinance of the city of Detroit prohibiting the maintenance of existing projecting sidewalk signs and regulating the size of marquees over sidewalks on Woodward avenue between Grand boulevard and the Detroit river. The several plaintiffs filed separate bills of complaint in the Wayne county circuit court for a declaration of their respective rights to maintain existing marquees and signs, asked that the ordinance in question be declared unconstitutional and that the city authorities be permanently enjoined from enforcing the same.

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