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SEVERANCE v. OAKLAND CTY. BD. OF SUPERVISORS

Calendar No. 47,123.

351 Mich. 173 (1958)

88 N.W.2d 413

SEVERANCE v. OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 4, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett F. Hayes (Patterson & Patterson and Barrett, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Harry J. Merritt, Corporation Counsel, and Charles A. Davis, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendants.

SMITH, J.

We have here a problem in statutory construction. It involves the attempted incorporation of a city and calls for an interpretaton of section 8 of PA 1909, No 279, as amended, being CLS 1956, § 117.8 (Stat Ann 1955 Cum Supp § 5.2087). The case comes here upon the dismissal, upon an issue of law, of a petition for writ of mandamus. We accept, therefore, the well-pleaded averments of the petition for the...

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