CITY OF PLYMOUTH v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 72912, (Calendar No. 10).

423 Mich. 106 (1985)

377 N.W.2d 689

CITY OF PLYMOUTH v. CITY OF DETROIT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milmet, Vecchio, Ward & Carnago (by George E. Ward) and Bert Burgayne for the plaintiffs.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Richard J. McClear, Kathleen McCree Lewis, Robert J. Franzinger, and Suzanne Sahakian) (Donald Pailen, Corporation Counsel, of counsel) for the defendants.


BRICKLEY, J.

This breach of contract action involving a 1976 thirty-nine percent water rate increase levied by the City of Detroit on ninety-five municipal customers outside the city requires us to pass on the method of determining whether the rates in question are "reasonable in relation to the costs incurred" and to consider the appropriate burden of proof and the standard of review to be applied to such a determination of reasonableness.

We conclude that...

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