Brennan v. Recorder of Detroit

The relator seeks mandamus to compel the respondents to take a complaint under a city ordinance of the city of Detroit for an alleged violation of the provisions of the section of an ordinance which prohibits “speeding,” so-called, in that city. The learned recorder took the view that the ordinance, in so far as it undertook to punish “speeding,” contravened the “Michigan motor vehicle law,” and refused *37to entertain complaints under the ordinance in his court for that offense. He also instructed the other respondent, the clerk of his court, to refuse to take such complaints.

Since the time…