DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, INC. v. CITY OF DEARBORN

Docket No. 49, Calendar No. 44,914.

331 Mich. 447 (1950)

49 N.W.2d 370

DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, INC., v. CITY OF DEARBORN.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Amended opinion filed October 2, 1951.

Rehearing denied December 3, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Fish, for plaintiff.

Dale H. Fillmore, Corporation Counsel, for defendant City of Dearborn and others.

Walter F. Brackel, for defendant Lancaster and others, doing business as Guide Newspapers.

Joel K. Underwood, Frank C. McCann, Earl C. Smith, and Robert E. Childs, of counsel, for defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Detroit Law Journal, by Thomas W. Thompson and John V. Moran.

Advertisers Press, Inc., by Myron Winegarden.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone.

Highland Parker, Inc., by Ellman & Ellman.

William S. Mellus, doing business as "The Lincoln Parker," "The Allen Parker," "The Melvindale Messenger," "The Ecorse Enterprise," "The Southwest Detroiter," and "The Township Tribune," by Chapman & Chapman.


REID, C.J. (dissenting in part).

The amended bill of complaint was filed in this case March 24, 1950, by the plaintiff, a Michigan corporation, publisher of the Dearborn Independent, a weekly newspaper, and owner of properties assessed for taxes in the city of Dearborn, for a determination that the Dearborn Guide, a publication of some of the defendants, doing business as Guide Newspapers, is not a newspaper qualified...

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