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MIDLAND TWP. v. BOUNDARY COMM

Docket Nos. 57720, 57732, 58223, 58236, 58242-58245. (Calendar Nos. 1-6).

401 Mich. 641 (1977)

259 N.W.2d 326

MIDLAND TOWNSHIP v. STATE BOUNDARY COMMISSION MIDLAND TOWNSHIP v. MIDLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS NOVI TOWNSHIP v. STATE BOUNDARY COMMISSION BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP v. STATE BOUNDARY COMMISSION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 24, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bauckham, Reed, Lang, Schaefer & Travis for Midland Township, Novi Township and Brighton Township.

William D. Sinclair for Midland Township and Robert B. Chatterton.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Milton I. Firestone and Craig Atchinson, Assistants Attorney General, for State Boundary Commission.

David S. DeWitt, City Attorney, for City of Midland and Kenneth W. Lybolt.

Louis C. Andrews, Jr., for City of Midland and City of Brighton.

Edward G. Durance for Midland County Board of Commissioners and Ben Penner.

Lampert & Fried, (by David M. Fried and Gary E. Levitt) for City of Novi.

Charles S. Toy for Brighton Township.

John R. Brennan, City Attorney, for City of Brighton.

Decided October 24, 1977. Rehearing denied 402 Mich. 956.

LEVIN, J.

The State Boundary Commission was created to consider petitions for the incorporation and consolidation of cities and villages. Its powers were subsequently enlarged to include petitions for annexation of territory to a city.

In these actions, consolidated on appeal, townships from which the commission ordered territory detached and annexed to adjoining cities and persons residing...

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