Commissioner of Insurance v. Lapeer Circuit Judge

Petitioner, receiver of the Lapeer Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association and plaintiff in a chancery suit against one John Riley, petitions this court for a writ of mandamus commanding the circuit judge to vacate an order transferring the above-mentioned cause from the chancery to the law side of the court.

On February 11, 1942, petitioner, as receiver of the insurance association, filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court of Lapeer county, in chancery, against one John Riley, a resident of Lapeer county, to impress a lien and provide for the foreclosure of the same against certain…