People ex rel. Wolcott v. Plainfield Avenue Gravel-Road Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent. (Adsit, J.) Bill to declare a forfeiture of the right of the defendant to receive toll for travel over its road. • Defendant appeals. The facts are -stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The object of this bill, which was filed under How. Stat. § 3049, is to declare forfeited the right of defendant to receive any toll by reason of its failure to rebuild a bridge across Grand river.
The defendant was organized February 24, 1880, for the purpose of constructing a gravel road from the city limits of the city of Grand Rapids, where Plainfield avenue intersects the same, along the State road, commonly called the “Plainfield Road,”, through the township of Grand Rapids, to the bridge called the “Plain-field Bridge,” a distance of seven miles. The period of its existence was fixed at…
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- People v. Grand Rapids & Walker Plank Road Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887
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