HODGE v. PONTIAC TOWNSHIP BOARD

Docket No. 38, Calendar No. 49,139.

363 Mich. 544 (1961)

110 N.W.2d 746

HODGE v. PONTIAC TOWNSHIP BOARD.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 21, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Hodge, in propria persona, and for plaintiff Walter D. Hodge.

Herbert W. Gordon, for defendants.

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Joseph B. Bilitzke, Solicitor General, Franklin J. Rauner and Hugh B. Anderson, Assistant Attorneys General, for intervening defendant.


PER CURIAM:

This case comes within the rule that courts do not take cognizance of suits instituted merely to obtain judicial opinions upon points of law, especially when the persons invoking the jurisdiction have shown for the purposes of a possibly momentous decision no personal grievance or adverse effect upon their personal or property rights. As was said by Mr. Justice Frankfurter, concurring in United States v. Congress of Industrial Organizations,...

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