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46 Mich. 138

Reinig v. Munson

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 27, 1881

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1881-04-27

<p>JDrains — Notice—Appointment of commissioners.</p> <p>Proceedings to lay out a ditch are fatally defective if there is no affirmative showing that notice was given of the application to the probate court for the appointment of commissioners to assess damages, and of their appointment.</p>

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1914

3 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1881-04-27

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Marston, C. J.

¶1The proceedings in each of these eases are fatally defective in that no notice appears to have been given of the application to, and appointment of commissioners by, the probate court. The necessity of the proceedings showing affirmatively that such notice was given has been decided so often that it does seem as though the law in this respect should be known and observed more generally than it seems to be. The proceedings in each case-must bé quashed and held for naught.

The other Justices concurred.
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