Case ID: mich_32/html/0190-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Ooukt", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jehiel Burt v. The Commissioners of Highways of Sumpter and Van Buren.
    
      Iicrnedy: Laying out highways: Appeal: ' Certiorari, where one feeling himself aggrieved. t>y tlie action of highway commissioners in the matter of laying out a road, on a town line, had taken advantage of the appropriate statutory remedy by appeal to the township hoards, there being no showing of peculiar and exceptional circumstances, the court declined to order a writ of certiorari to review the proceedings.
    
      Heard and decided June 9.
    
    Application for Certiorari.
    
    This writ was sought to review proceedings of the highway commissioners to lay out a road on tbe town line between tlie townships of Sumpter and Van Burén, in Wayne county. To lay out the proposed highway, lands of the relator were required to be taken, and he was awarded damages for the taking. Not being satisfied with the action of the commissioners, he took an appeal under the statute to the township boards of the two townships, where the proceedings of the commissioners were confirmed, except as to the amount of the award to the relator.
    
      James 8. Dewey, for relator, made the application ex parte.
    
   The Ooukt

held that where one has thus taken advantage of the appropriate statutory remedy by appeal, a writ of certiorari will not be allowed to renew the proceedings, unless there are peculiar and exceptional circumstances existing indicating that some special grievance will result from the denial of the remedy.

Writ denied.