Thomson v. City of Dearborn

In 1950 the city of Dearborn, a home-rule city, by ordinance provided a rather elaborate on-and-off-street system of municipal automobile parking facilities to be financed by self-liquidating revenue bonds. One of the off-street meter parking lots so established under this ordinance became known as the Calhoun parking lot. As time went on the city determined to enlarge this parking lot by extending it easterly, and in the spring of 1955 it acted to do so. To help pay for the new lands which had to be acquired by condemnation to enlarge the existing parking lot, the city levied a special…