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Hauser v. Burbank

Hauser v. Burbank, 76 N.W. 111 (Mich. 1898)
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Court
Michigan Supreme Court · State Highest Courts
Decided
July 18, 1898
Judges
Montgomery, Other
Citations
76 N.W. 111117 Mich. 6421898 Mich. LEXIS 929
Disposition
Reversed.
Headnotes
Drains — Application—Objections. The names of certain owners of land traversed by a proposed drain were omitted from the application to the probate court. The parties omitted did not complain. A release was given the drain commissioner, by an adjoining owner, of a sufficient quantity of land to accommodate the entire ditch at that point. Held, that other owners could not complain.
Summary
Error to Berrien; Coolidge, J. Certiorari by Joseph W. Hauser to review the action of John E. Burbank, drain commissioner of Berrien county, in laying out and establishing a drain. From a judgment setting aside the proceedings, defendant brings error.

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Opinion of the Court — Montgomery

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Montgomery, J.

This case presents the same questions as are found in No. 11 of the April term, of the same title (Hauser v. Burbank, ante, 463); and one additional question is raised, which is that the names of two owners of land traversed by the proposed drain were omitted from the application to the probate court. The return to the certiorari shows that the survey was made at a time of high water, and that, as the thread of the stream was then located, the line of the proposed ditch did not traverse the land of these parties. The commissioner returns that he does not know that the lands of the parties were traversed, but that a release has been given him by the adjoining owner of a sufficient quantity of land to accommodate the *643 entire ditch and the deposits of earth therefrom. The parties who are alleged to be owners of the land traversed are not complaining, and it is apparent that a right of way has been acquired substantially on the line surveyed. We think the plaintiff in certiorari is not therefore in position to complain.

The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, with costs of both courts to defendant in certiorari.

The other Justices concurred.-

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1905: 11919: 119052026peak 1905 · 1

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  1. Ross v. Board of Supervisors104 N.W. 506 (Iowa 1905)
  2. Doane v. Biggs172 N.W. 570 (Mich. 1919)

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  1. Doane v. Biggs172 N.W. 570 (Mich. 1919)
  2. Ross v. Board of Supervisors104 N.W. 506 (Iowa 1905)

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