Michigan Supreme Court, 1866

Fort Street & Elmwood R. R. v. Schneider

Fort Street & Elmwood R. R. v. Schneider
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided November 10, 1866
15 Mich. 74; 1866 Mich. LEXIS 74
Fort Street & Elmwood R. R. v. Schneider

Opinion of the Court

The Court held, that by the terms of said amended ordinance the obligation to pave, assumed by the complainants, did not include an obligation to excavate with reference to grade, but that the city was to provide for all the work preliminary to the actual paving, and that the injunction should have been granted.

The decree below was reversed, and a perpetual injunction granted in accordance with the prayer of the bill.

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