Welch v. Stowell
Michigan Supreme Court
^/?Jase reserved from the Wayne Circuit Court. This /was an action of trespass for demolishing a dwelling house in the city of Detroit, owned and occupied by tbe plaintiff, Elizabeth Welch.
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^/?Jase reserved from the Wayne Circuit Court. This /was an action of trespass for demolishing a dwelling house in the city of Detroit, owned and occupied by tbe plaintiff, Elizabeth Welch. At the trial in the circuit court, tbe jury returned a special verdict, by which they foundy that tbe trespass had been committed by the defendants as alleged in the declaration but that, at tbe time, the house was, and for more than ten years previously had been, occupied by the pjaintiff as a house of ill fame, and jbat it was a common nuisance. They further found that, on the 16th of September, 1836,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhipple, J.
The third section of “ An act to amend ‘ an act entitled an act relative to the city of Detroit,’ ” approved June 29, 1832, (S. L. 1832, p. 40,) confers upon the common council of the city, “ full power and authority to make all such by laws and ordinances, as may by the said common council, be deemed expedient, for effectually preventing and suppressing all disorderly houses, and houses of ill fame, within the limits of said city.”
Under this grant of power, the common council, on the 16th September, 1836, adopted an ordinance entitled “an ordinance to suppress disorderly houses and houses of…
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