People ex rel. Comstock v. Judge of Superior Court

Relator asks a mandamus to compel the respondent to admit him to the office of Clerk of the Superior Court of Grand Rapids, by receiving his bond and oath of office. This is resisted on the ground that by the old law the clerk of Kent county was made ex officio clerk of that court, and that the new law providing for a separate clerk is invalid.

The alleged reason of its insufficiency is that while the title of the act purports to revise and amend several sections of the old statute and to add several new sections, the particular provision is contained in a sec*197tion numbered 7, corresponding in…