People v. Navarre
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of debt commenced in the name of the People of the State of Michigan before Peter B. Austin, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Wayne, 'against Peter Navarre.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of debt commenced in the name of the People of the State of Michigan before Peter B. Austin, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Wayne, 'against Peter Navarre. The defendant appeared on the return day and moved to dismiss the cause for the following reasons: 1st. That, it being admitted that the defendant was a resident of the township of Brownstown, in said county, and that said township did not adjoin the city of Detroit, where the said Justice resided, and that, therefore, ho had no jurisdiction to try the said cause. 2d. The Supervisor of…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
From an inspection of the record in this case, it would seem that defendant in error was prosecuted before a Justice of the .Peace in the name of plaintiffs in error, to recover certain penalties claimed to have been incurred by Navarre under the statute against obstructing highways (§ 1, Ch. 28, Comp. L.), and the statute to protect bridges from injury (§ 5, Ch. 24, Comp. L.); and that the Justice rendered judgment against him for twelve dollars damages, and ten dollars costs of suit: That an appeal was taken to the Court below, when the cause was discontinued by oral *3consent in open court,…
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