City of Detroit v. Judge of Recorder's Court

In 1894 the trustees of the owners subdivided and recorded a plat of that part of Brush Farm lying between Brady'street and Alexandrine avenue in the city of Detroit. It consisted of a parcel of property some 900 feet in length and 411 feet or thereabouts in width. A strip of land 60 feet in width and 900 feet in length was reserved in the middle of the subdivision and dedicated to the public use as 'a “park for the adornment of the highway and for no other purpose whatever.” The subdivision was so laid out that Brush street, then already an important thoroughfare, running in a northerly and…