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DETROIT EDISON CO. v. CITY OF WIXOM

Calendar No. 25, Docket No. 51,983.

382 Mich. 673 (1969)

172 N.W.2d 382

DETROIT EDISON COMPANY v. CITY OF WIXOM.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 1, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fischer, Sprague, Franklin & Ford (Leon R. Jones and Ralph H. Houghton, Jr., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Schnelz & Bulgarelli (Louis C. Andrews, Jr., of counsel), for defendant.

T.E. BRENNAN, C.J.

THE CASE.

This is not an easy case to state. It involves the growing conflict between the needs of a sprawling megalopolis and the rights of a single community.

It represents one facet of the late-20th century dilemma: How to balance the demands of vast new urbanization and the demands of people for local determination of their own environment.

Recently, this Court ended a decade of controversy over the location of an interstate...

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