TWP. OF SOUTHFIELD v. DRAINAGE BOARD FOR TWELVE TOWNS RELIEF DR.

Docket Nos. 57, 75, Calendar Nos. 47,947, 47,981.

357 Mich. 59 (1959)

97 N.W.2d 821

TOWNSHIP OF SOUTHFIELD v. DRAINAGE BOARD FOR TWELVE TOWNS RELIEF DRAINS. CITY OF TROY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Allen, for intervening plaintiff City of Southfield.

Burke & Osgood (Stanley E. Burke, of counsel), for plaintiff City of Troy.

Maurice A. Merritt, for intervening plaintiff Township of Royal Oak.

Norman R. Barnard, Corporation Counsel of County of Oakland, Charles A. Davis and Robert P. Allen, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Claude H. Stevens, of counsel), for defendants.

James S. Thorburn, for intervening defendant City of Huntington Woods.

Carl Forsythe, for intervening defendant City of Oak Park.

Jack Moskowitz, for intervening defendant City of Hazel Park.

H. Eugene Field, for intervening defendant City of Madison Heights.

Allan G. Hertler, for intervening defendant City of Royal Oak.

John H. Norton, for intervening defendant City of Berkley.

Orph C. Holmes, for intervening defendant City of Ferndale.

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, G. Douglas Clapperton and Florence N. Clement, Assistants Attorney General, for intervening Attorney General.


KAVANAGH, J.

The plaintiffs township of Southfield and city of Troy filed separate bills of complaint to enjoin certain actions of the drainage board in connection with the financing, construction and assessment of the cost of the relief drains proposed to be constructed between 8-Mile road and 15-Mile road and between John R road and Southfield road in Oakland county. Defendants are the Oakland county drain commissioner, chairman of the Oakland county board of auditors...

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