BLOOMFIELD VILLAGE DRAIN DIST. v. KEEFE

Nos. 8560, 8561, 8573, 8575, No. 8583.

119 F.2d 157 (1941)

BLOOMFIELD VILLAGE DRAIN DIST. et al. v. KEEFE et al., and four other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

March 14, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nos. 8560, 8561:

Frank C. Cook and John P. O'Hara, both of Detroit, Mich. (Charles L. Wilson and Harry J. Merritt, both of Pontiac, Mich., and John Conway Cook, of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellants.

Irvin Long, of Detroit, Mich., and David M. Wood, of New York City (Goodenough, Voorhies, Long & Ryan and Dykema, Jones & Wheat, all of Detroit, Mich., and Thomson, Wood & Hoffman, of New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Nos. 8573, 8575, 8583:

Hugh Francis and John H. Yoe, both of Detroit, Mich., Charles Retzlaff, of East Detroit, Mich., and Bert V. Nunneley, of Mt. Clemens, Mich. (Alex J. Groesbeck, of Detroit, Mich., Kenneth J. McCallum, of East Detroit, Mich., and Younglove & Chockley, of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellants.

Elroy O. Jones, of Detroit, Mich., David M. Wood, of New York City, and William N. Gall, of Detroit, Mich. (Goodenough, Voorhies, Long & Ryan and Dykema, Jones & Wheat, all of Detroit, Mich., and Thomson, Wood & Hoffman, of New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before ALLEN, HAMILTON, and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellees, a committee for holders of bonds of certain Michigan drain districts, brought class suits against appellants, the five drain districts, Oakland County and Macomb County, the City of East Detroit, the Village of Centerline, and the Townships of Erin, Lake, and Warren, and various officials and taxpayers thereof, asking that the bonds be decreed to be valid obligations of the drain districts, that the special assessments therefor be...

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