Mitchell v. Grewal

These cases, which were consolidated for trial and submitted here on 1 record, involve substantially identical adjacent apartment buildings under separate ownerships. They are located on the south side of Seward avenue in the city of Detroit between Twelfth and Woodrow Wilson streets. Each building is 3 stories in height, with basement, and one contains 31 and the other 33 apartments.

Being desirous of increasing the number of units in each to 77, applications were separately made by defendant owners to the department of buildings and safety engineering for permits for alterations thereof, in…