Barnhart v. City of Grand Rapids

The city commission of the defendant city on May 18, 1925, adopted a resolution declaring that the widening of Division avenue from Monroe avenue to Wealthy street by taking 12 feet from the property on the east side of the avenue and the improving of the street when so widened by paving, etc., was “a necessary public improvement.” The resolution further provided that the expense of such improvement be first met by issuing bonds of the city therefor, and that such expense—

“aside from that portion thereof required by charter or franchise to be paid by the city at large or some public service…