Case ID: mich_46/html/0138-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Marston, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Adam Reinig v. Samuel Munson, drain com’r et al. Angeline Allen v. Samuel Munson, drain com’r et al.
    
      JDrains — Notice—Appointment of commissioners.
    
    Proceedings to lay out a ditch are fatally defective if there is no affirmative showing that notice was given of the application to the probate court for the appointment of commissioners to assess damages, and of their appointment.
    Certiorari. Proceedings to lay ont a township ditch-
    Submitted April 15.
    Proceedings quashed April 27.
    
      Tarsney, Tennant & Weadock for plaintiffs in certiorari.
   Marston, C. J.

The proceedings in each of these eases are fatally defective in that no notice appears to have been given of the application to, and appointment of commissioners by, the probate court. The necessity of the proceedings showing affirmatively that such notice was given has been decided so often that it does seem as though the law in this respect should be known and observed more generally than it seems to be. The proceedings in each case-must bé quashed and held for naught.

The other Justices concurred.