Butcher v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff, Janet Butcher, filed this suit claiming that defendant City of Detroit’s ordinance (124-H §§ 12-7-1 et seq.) requiring an inspection for one-and two-family dwellings at the point of sale was unconstitutional. On June 3, 1982, the trial judge granted plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment, finding that defendant city lacked authority to pass the ordinance and that the ordinance constituted a taking of property without due process of law. On appeal, this Court reversed the trial judge’s grant of partial summary judgment, expressly finding that defendant city had authority to…