Legal Opinion

Aikens v. Department of Conservation

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 20, 1972No. 28 October Term 1971, Docket No. 53,165Published

1Opinion of the Court

387 Mich. 495 (1972)

198 N.W.2d 304

AIKENS

v.

DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION

No. 28 October Term 1971, Docket No. 53,165.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 20, 1972.

Abba I. Friedman, for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Jerome Maslowski and Curtis G. Beck, Assistants Attorney General, for defendant.

SWAINSON, J.

Plaintiffs are commercial perch fishermen who pursue this occupation in the Saginaw Bay area. In the summer of 1965, officers of the Michigan Department of Conservation[*] seized certain catches of perch taken by the fishermen on the…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Geer v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  2. Webster v. Rotary Electric Steel Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1948
  3. Aikens v. Department of ConservationMichigan Supreme Court · 1972
  4. Smith v. City CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1937
  5. Heckathorn v. HeckathornMichigan Supreme Court · 1938

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