LANSING TOWNSHIP v. CITY OF LANSING

Docket No. 72, Calendar No. 47,740.

356 Mich. 338 (1959)

97 N.W.2d 128

TOWNSHIP OF LANSING v. CITY OF LANSING.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied July 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude J. Marshall (Benjamin F. Watson, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Joseph Lavey, City Attorney (Joseph W. Planck, of counsel), for defendants.


EDWARDS, J.

The basic question in this case is whether the charter creating a metropolitan district "to furnish water and (or) sewage-disposal services to properties within or without its limits" can be regarded as a franchise to conduct a water business making use of public streets and alleys in the whole of the district described, absent any further grant of power.

The defendant-appellant city of Lansing, successor to the interests of Landel Metropolitan...

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