Case ID: mich_81/html/0445-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morse, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Louis A. Coquard and Aime Chevillotte v. William Boehmer, Commissioner of Highways of the Township of Hamtramck.
    
      Highways — Proceedings to establish — Notice.
    Ten full days’ notice must be given of the bearing of an application to lay out a highway. How. Stat. § 1298; People v. Commissioner, 38 Mich. 247; Price v. Stagray, 68 Id. 17; Dixon v. Commissioner, 75 Id. 225.
    
      Certiorari to highway commissioner to review proceed, ings to lay out highway.
    Argued June 4, 1890.
    Proceedings quashed June 13, 1890.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Wisner, Speed & Harvey, for petitioners.
    
      John G. Hawley, for respondent.
   Morse, J.

Certiorari to review proceedings to lay out a highway.

The proceedings must be quashed. Notice of a meeting to be held January 25, 1890, to view the premises and ascertain the necessity of opening the highway, and to appraise the damages for the taking of land for such highway, was given by the commissioner on January 15, 1890. The statute provides that the notice must be served 10 days before the time of meeting. How. Stat. § 1298. This case is ruled by People v. Commissioner, 38 Mich. 247, where it was held that the language of the statute excludes the day on which the meeting is to be held, and that, under the well-settled rule in this State, the day of service is also excluded. There must be 10 full days’' notice, excluding day of service and day of meeting.

The proceedings are therefore quashed, with costs.

The other Justices coucurred.