Case Name: DETROIT SPRINGWELLS & DEARBORN RY. Co. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1895-04-21
Citations: 1 McGrath 628
Docket Number: No. 13186
Parties: DETROIT SPRINGWELLS & DEARBORN RY. Co. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 628–628

Head Matter:
DETROIT SPRINGWELLS & DEARBORN RY. Co. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne),
No. 13186,
95 M., 318.

Opinion:
To compel respondent to appoint commissioners to ascertain and determine the necessity for taking and using, for the purpose of a suburban railway, so much of the right, title and franchise of the plank road company over, to and in the said highway as is required for relator's use, and to appraise and determine the damages and fix the compensation to be allowed therefor, under Act No. 67, Laws of 1891.
Denied April 21, 1895, with costs.
Held, that the description of the land sought to be taken was indefinite, and that the petition did not show that the land sought to be acquired was subject to condemnation.