Legal Opinion
Defnet v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided March 1, 1950No. Docket 58, Calendar 44,323PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBushnell, J.
Dr. William A. Defnet and Ida Franke Defnet, his wife, are the owners of and have occupied residential property at 39 Lawrence avenue in the city of Detroit since 1924. The legal description of this property is:
“The westerly 30 feet of lot 99 and east 20 feet of vacated alley lying west of and adjoining said lot 99, Greenlawn subdivision, being the south 682 feet of 1/4 section #25, 10,000 acre tract, according to the plat thereof recorded April 30, 1891, in liber 15 at page 58 of plats in the office of the Wayne county register of deeds.”
In 1901, defendant city of Detroit constructed a sewer…
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