CITY OF DETROIT v. DETROIT EDISON CO.

Docket No. 4,631.

16 Mich. App. 423 (1969)

168 N.W.2d 320

CITY OF DETROIT v. DETROIT EDISON COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 24, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, and John F. Hathaway and Ronald C. Winiemko, Assistants Corporation Counsel, for plaintiff.

Fischer, Sprague, Franklin & Ford (William C. Potter, Jr., of counsel), for defendant.

BEFORE: FITZGERALD, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and BRONSON, JJ.


FITZGERALD, P.J.

A smoke inspector employed by the air pollution control bureau of the city of Detroit often stationed himself 700 feet from the smoke stacks of defendant-appellant and compared the color of the emissions coming from them with the colors known by him to be given on the Ringelmann chart, the measurement of density of air pollution used by the city. The color of the emissions observed was darker than that permissible and defendant was eventually found...

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