CITY OF NOVI v. ROBERT ADELL CHILDREN'S FUNDED TRUST

Docket No. 223944.

659 N.W.2d 615 (2002)

253 Mich. App. 330

CITY OF NOVI, Plaintiff Appellant, v. ROBERT ADELL CHILDREN'S FUNDED TRUST, Franklin Adell Children's Funded Trust, Marvin Adell Children's Funded Trust, and Novi Expo Center, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided October 4, 2002, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication January 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley (by Thomas R. Schultz), Farmington Hills, for city of Novi.

Steinhardt Pesick & Cohen, P.C. (by H. Adam Cohen), Southfield, for Adell Children's Funded Trusts.

Before: WHITBECK, C.J., and O'CONNELL and METER, JJ.


WHITBECK, C.J.

Plaintiff city of Novi appeals as of right from the trial court's order dismissing its condemnation action after the trial court determined that the proposed taking of certain property owned by the Robert Adell Children's Funded Trust, the Franklin Adell Children's Funded Trust, and the Marvin Adell Children's Funded Trust (the Adell trusts) primarily benefited a private interest, not the public. We affirm.

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