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CERTAIN-TEED PRODUCTS CORP. v. PARIS TWP.

Docket Nos. 37, 38, Calendar Nos. 46,834, 46,835.

351 Mich. 434 (1958)

88 N.W.2d 705

CERTAIN-TEED PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. PARIS TOWNSHIP.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 5, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCobb, Heaney & Dunn (Clausen, Hirsh & Miller, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Vander Veen, Freihofer, Cook & Bryant, for defendants.

Amici Curiae:

Gypsum Association by Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy (MacLeish, Spray, Price & Underwood, of counsel).

Michigan State Association of Supervisors, by Charles A. Larnard.

EDWARDS, J.

Seven miles from the heart of Grand Rapids in Paris township a valuable deposit of gypsum rock has been discovered lying 240 feet below the surface. In its processed form gypsum is widely used for plastering the walls of buildings and the making of plasterboard. Prior to this discovery only 2 commercial deposits of gypsum were known to exist in Michigan, one in southern Iosco county, and the other south of Grand Rapids in Walker township.

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