Case Name: MASON vs. DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE R. R. CO.
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1895-04-16
Citations: 1 McGrath 1671
Docket Number: No. 14596
Parties: MASON vs. DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE R. R. CO.,
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 1671–1671

Head Matter:
MASON vs. DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE R. R. CO.,
No. 14596,
104 M., 631.
(Certiorari to Shiawassee.)

Opinion:
To compel respondent to construct a culvert across its right-of-way to- accommodate a drain claimed to have been established by relator as county drain commissioner.
The circuit judge granted the writ.
Reversed April 16, 1895, with costs.
Held, that the action of the county drain commissioner in. establishing a drain wholly within the corporate limits of a city, the charter of which gives to the -city complete jurisdiction over its drainage, is void.