Grevnin v. Collateral Liquidation, Inc.

Plaintiffs were decreed to yield up possession of certain premises on January 1, 1942. They appealed from that decree and to stay proceedings pending appeal this court ordered that they make a deposit of $5,000 with the clerk of the circuit court. They lost on their appeal, Grevnin v. Collateral Liquidation,Inc., 302 Mich. 274. Then defendant moved to recover on the cash bond the fair rental value of the premises to June 23, 1942. The court heard testimony on the fair rental value and fixed the same at $520.83 per month. The court fixed the value of the premises at $125,000, that being the amount at which the defendant offered the same for sale. Five per cent. on the offered sale price was the fair rental fixed by the court.

Defendant claims the court should have added the taxes and insurance and had this been done the monthly rent on that basis would amount to $940.65.

Appeal is by defendant and the only question presented is that of the fair rental value of the premises. The premises consist of 20 acres of land in the village of Ecorse between Jefferson avenue and the Detroit River harbor line, of which land one-half is under water, and the premises have buildings thereon for smelting and refining of metals and some other buildings, also storage space.

The question here is not a return on the investment but the fair rental value of the premises. As a matter of law the circuit judge was not required to add taxes and insurance to the value of the premises in fixing a basis upon which to compute a fair rental value thereof during the period here involved.

We find no reversible error. The decree is affirmed, with costs to plaintiffs.

NORTH, C.J., and STARR, BUTZEL, BUSHNELL, SHARPE, BOYLES, and REID, JJ., concurred.