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OAKLAND CTY. TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE v. OAKLAND CTY. SUPERVISORS

Docket No. 70, Calendar No. 47,561.

355 Mich. 305 (1959)

94 N.W.2d 875

OAKLAND COUNTY TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE v. OAKLAND COUNTY SUPERVISORS.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 19, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn C. Gillespie and William H. Wilmot, for plaintiff.

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, and James R. Ramsey, Assistant Attorney General, for intervening plaintiff State of Michigan.

Harry J. Merritt, Corporation Counsel, and Charles A. Davis, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Claude H. Stevens, of counsel), for defendants.

Allan G. Hertler, for intervening defendant South Oakland County Bar Association.

KELLY, J.

The Oakland county board of supervisors decided on a site and commenced plans for the construction of a new and adequate courthouse. No one challenges the fact that a new courthouse was necessary.

Plaintiff, a voluntary, nonpartisan association of taxpayers and electors of Oakland county, filed its bill of complaint asking the court to decree:

"A. That no authority is conferred by law upon defendant board of supervisors to designate a new...

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