People ex rel. Keal v. Judge of the Wayne Circuit

The question raised by this application is, whether it is competent for one of several plaintiffs or defendants to carry a case heard before a justice of the peace to the circuit court by appeal, or whether all the plaintiffs or defendants, as the case may be, must unite in the appeal. It is urged that the language, that "any party,” etc., may appeal, must be read as meaning that all the litigants, on the one side or the other, may appeal. This is too narrow. The very next section requires the “party appealing” to present to the justice an affidavit made by himself, his agent or attorney,…