Case Name: GREVNIN v. COLLATERAL LIQUIDATION, INC.
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1944-04-03
Citations: 308 Mich. 349
Docket Number: Docket No. 50, Calendar No. 42,582
Parties: GREVNIN v. COLLATERAL LIQUIDATION, INC.
Judges: North, C. J., and Starr, Butzel, Bushnell, Sharpe, Boyles, and Reid, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 308
Pages: 349–351

Head Matter:
GREVNIN v. COLLATERAL LIQUIDATION, INC.
1. Appeal and Error — Bent During Pendency op Appeal prom Decree tor Possession — Bair Value.
Bair rental value during nearly six months of pendency of appeal from decree for possession of premises, consisting of 20 acres of land upon some of which are located buildings for smelting and refining metals and for other purposes, about half the land being under water, was properly fixed at five per cent, of amount for which, defendant had offered premises for sale.
2. Same — Eair Rental Value During Pendency of Appeal — Taxation — Insurance.
In fixing the fair rental value of premises during nearly six months of pendency of appeal from decree for possession, a circuit judge is not required to add taxes and insurance to the value of the premises in fixing a basis upon which to com-' pute a fair rental value thereof during such period where he fixed rental value at five per cent, of amount for which defendant had offered premises for sale.
Appeal from Wayne; Miller (Guy A.), J.
Submitted January 6, 1944.
(Docket No. 50, Calendar No. 42,582.)
Decided April 3, 1944.
Rehearing denied May 17, 1944.
Bill by Ruben Grevnin and others against Collateral Liquidation, Inc., a Delaware corporation, for an accounting and other relief. Bill dismissed. Plaintiffs appealed and decree affirmed by Supreme Court. Equitable Trust Company, receiver for plaintiffs, intervened. On motion to fix the amount of rental to be collected under a cash bond filed to stay proceedings. Prom decree fixing amount of rental, defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Miller, Canfield, Paddock é Stone, for defendant.
Milton■ M. Maddin, George A. Kelly and Walter E. Kelly, for intervener.

Opinion:
Wiest, J.
Plaintiffs were decreed to yield np possession of certain premises on January 1, 1942. They appealed from that decree and to stay proceedings pending appeal this court ordered that they make a deposit of $5,000 with, the clerk of the circuit court. They lost on their appeal, Grevnin v. Collateral Liquidation, Inc., 302 Mich. 274. Then defendant moved to recover on the cash bond the fair rental Value of the premises to June 23, 1942. The court heard testimony on the fair rental value and fixed the same at $520.83 per month. The court fixed the value of the premises at $125,000, that being the amount at which the defendant offered the same for sale. Five per cent, on the offered sale price was the fair rental fixed by the court.
Defendant claims the court should have added the taxes and insurance and had this been done the monthly rent on that basis would amount to $940.65.
Appeal is by defendant and the only question presented is that of the fair rental value of the premises. The premises consist of 20 acres of land in the village of Ecorse between Jefferson avenue and the Detroit River harbor line, of which land one-half is under water, and the premises have buildings thereon for smelting and refining of metals and some other buildings, also storage space.
The question here is not a return on the investment but the fair rental value of the premises. As a matter of law the circuit judge was not required to add taxes and insurance to the value of the premises in fixing a basis upon which to compute a fair rental value thereof during the period here involved.
We find no reversible error. The decree is affirmed, with costs to plaintiffs.
North, C. J., and Starr, Butzel, Bushnell, Sharpe, Boyles, and Reid, JJ., concurred.