De Vries v. Meyering Land Co.

Defendant company platted land near the city of Grand Rapids, with 43 lots bordering a planned artificial lake of seven acres, and sold three of such lots to plaintiffs under land contracts in which plaintiffs assumed obligation to pay a proportionate share of the expense of maintaining the lake. After plaintiffs had made some payments on the contracts, defendant desired to abandon the plan of having the lake, and procured vacation of the plat and in a new plat rearranged former lot lines and planned a park in place of the lake. Plaintiffs stood upon their contract rights, tendered…