Tucker v. Parker
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Drain Commissioners and Clerks of Chesterfield and Harrison in Macomb county.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
The proceedings in laying out a township drain are brought before us in this case by certiorari for the purpose of having them quashed. The proceedings were begun and concluded in the year 1882. They are claimed to be invalid for various defects.
The statute under which the proceedings were taken is the general act of 1881 (Public Acts, p. 367). The fortieth section of that act is given in the magin.*
*6No one can read that section without being convinced that it has a general purpose to save and uphold the proceedings in laying out and establishing drains wherever it can be done consistently…
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