Preston National Bank v. Wayne Circuit Judge

This is an application for mandamus requiring respondent to grant a change of venue in the case of the Union Trust Company against the relator. Relator, acting under Act No. 309, Pub. Acts 1905, filed an affidavit stating that the “defendant cannot have a fair and impartial trial of said cause in said county because of the odium attaching to the defendant and its cause of defense, on account of local prejudice here existing against defendant,” and that “defendant cannot have a fair and impartial trial of said cause in said county because the plaintiff has an undue influence over the citizens…