Duffield v. City of Detriot
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from the Recorder’s Court in the city of Detroit. Proceedings were had in the Recorder’s Court to open a street running through appellant’s premises, and which would leave part of said premises on each side of said street.
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Appeal from the Recorder’s Court in the city of Detroit. Proceedings were had in the Recorder’s Court to open a street running through appellant’s premises, and which would leave part of said premises on each side of said street. By stipulation, it was agreed that appellant’s counsel request the court to charge — “That if they found that it was necessary to take the property of said George Duffield for the intended improvement, that then in determining the just damages and compensation to be paid to him, they had no right to assess or apportion any supposed benefit that, in their judgment,…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
We can not, I think, in the present condition of this record, properly make a final disposition of .this cause by reversing or afiirming the judgment and proceedings in the Recorder’s Court.
The only portions of the proceedings properly authenticated or certified are the verdict or report of the jury, the objections filed to its confirmation, certain affidavits, the order confirming the report, and the appeal. .
These are properly certified by the-clerk. The request to charge the jury, and the charge or instructions given, are not officially authenticated in any way. In fact, the…
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