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MAGNUSON v. KENT COUNTY BD. OF CANVASSERS

Calendar No. 55, Docket No. 49,931.

370 Mich. 649 (1963)

122 N.W.2d 808

MAGNUSON v. KENT COUNTY BOARD OF CANVASSERS.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 17, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George R. Sidwell, for plaintiffs.

Schmidt, Smith, Howlett & Halliday (William J. Halliday, Jr., of counsel), for intervening plaintiff City of Wyoming.

Vanderveen, Freihofer & Cook (George R. Cook, of counsel), for defendant.

Dilley & Dilley (Albert R. Dilley, of counsel), for intervening defendant Huizenga.

James K. Miller, for intervening defendant City of Grand Rapids.

Roger D. Anderson, for intervening defendant Board of Education of the City of Grand Rapids.

O'HARA, J.

This is an annexation case. It arises under section 9 of the home-rule act.1 A recent per curiam opinion2 described the statute as "abstruse." This descriptive euphemism may well qualify as the understatement of the judicial year. The involved section when first enacted contained 22 printed lines. It set out clearly which electors would vote in the annexation...

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