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WAYNE COUNTY v. WILLIAM

Docket No. 104299, Calendar No. 8.

563 N.W.2d 674 (1997)

454 Mich. 608

WAYNE COUNTY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILLIAM G. and Virginia M. Britton Trust and William G. Britton, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fink, Zausmer, P.C. by Mark J. Zausmer and Gary K. August, Detroit, and Jennifer M. Granholm, Corporation Counsel, and John C. Burchett, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mason, Steinhardt, Jacobs & Perlman, P.C. by Frederick D. Steinhardt, Walter B. Mason, Jr., and H. Adam Cohen, Southfield, for defendants.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Patrick F. Isom, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, amici curiae, for Michigan Department of Transportation.

Phyllis A. James, Corporation Counsel and Thomas B. Serowik, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Detroit, for City of Detroit.

Ackerman & Ackerman, P.C. by Alan T. Ackerman and Gary D. Strauss, Troy, for defendants.

Opinion

RILEY, Justice.

In this appeal, we address two issues: (1) what constitutes a "fixture" for purposes of the condemnation process, and (2) whether a condemnee can force the condemning agency to pay either the value-in-place or the detach/reattachment costs for his fixtures.1 We reaffirm the three-part test enumerated in Morris v. Alexander, 208 Mich. 387, 175 N...

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