Legal Opinion

Turrill v. Walker

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1856PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Error to Wayne Circuit. The defendant in error filed, as the commencement of suit, a declaration against plaintiffs in error with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in assumpsit; he also entered the usual rule to plead.

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Error to Wayne Circuit. The defendant in error filed, as the commencement of suit, a declaration against plaintiffs in error with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in assumpsit; he also entered the usual rule to plead. A copy of the declaration, and also a notice of the rule that plaintiffs in error were required to appear and plead to said declaration within twenty days after service of a copy of declaration, etc., was afterwards filed in the Circuit Court. On this copy of the declaration was endorsed a return of the Sheriff of Lapeer County, Michigan, in the following…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Wing, J.

The defendant insists that his proceedings in this case are authorized by the statutes of this State, and therefore there is no error in this case which the Court can notice.

*179The ninth Section of Chapter 89, Title 21, declares : u That the Circuit Courts, within and for their respective Counties, shall have and exercise jurisdiction of all civil actions and remedies at law and in equity, and all prosecutions in the ■ name of the People of this State, for crimes, misdemeanors, offences and penalties, except in cases where exclusive jurisdiction shall be given to or…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Clark v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  2. Corning v. BurtonMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
  3. United States v. SchurrDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1908
  4. Atkins v. BorstlerMichigan Supreme Court · 1881
  5. Monger v. New Era Ass'nMichigan Supreme Court · 1906

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