Jonkers v. Summit Township

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “platted public roads convey either a mere public easement or, at most, a ‘base fee’ that amounts to little more than nominal title and no beneficial ownership whatsoever”
• stating that “platted public roads convey either a mere public easement or, at most, a ‘base fee’ that amounts to little more than nominal title and no beneficial ownership whatsoever”
• explaining that “the fact that the township only occasionally did anything on the property is consistent with the area’s character as relatively undeveloped and predominantly seasonally occupied”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).