People Ex Rel. Regents of University v. Pommerening

The university of Michigan is a corporation, vested with right to invoke the power of eminent domain.

For declared educational purposes, the regents of the university, desiring land for an 18-hole golf course, instituted this proceeding to acquire, by condemnation, 10% acres of defendants’ land. A jury in the Washtenaw circuit found the necessity for taking the land and awarded defendants $11,058 compensation. Defendants contested the alleged need, asserted the power was being exercised in behalf of the board in control of athletics of the university of Michigan, a corporate entity, without…