Legal Opinion

Taber v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided May 26, 1909No. Calendar Nos. 23,116, 23,133PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Mandamus by Lydia Starr Taber to compel Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judge of Wayne county, to correct a judgment entry, and to vacate an order setting aside a cognovit.

1Opinion of the CourtMcAlvay, J.

These two applications for writs of mandamus may be considered together. The history of the litigation involved in this suit, and a companion suit of like character, begun at the same time, and in which exactly the same proceedings were supposed to have been had, will be found in Starr v. Whitcomb, 150 Mich. 491. To avoid unnecessary length in the decision of these motions, the opinion in that case may very properly be included as a part of this opinion. By so doing the exact situation at the time the case was sent back to the circuit court for the trial of the issue to be joined will be…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Starr v. WhitcombMichigan Supreme Court · 1907

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