Hunt v. Wayne Circuit Judges
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Ormond F. Hunt, prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, to compel Flavius L. Brooke, Henry A. Mandell, Morse Rohnert, George S. Hosmer, and Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judges of Wayne county, to vacate an order denying a petition to establish a juvenile court under Act No. 312, Pub.
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Mandamus by Ormond F. Hunt, prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, to compel Flavius L. Brooke, Henry A. Mandell, Morse Rohnert, George S. Hosmer, and Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judges of Wayne county, to vacate an order denying a petition to establish a juvenile court under Act No. 312, Pub. Acts 1905. Relator, the prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, applied by petition to the circuit court for that county and to the judges thereof, and in his petition set out that the legislature of the State of Michigan, at its last session, passed an act known as Act No. 312, entitled “ An act to…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
(after stating the facts). It will be perceived that the questions presented to this court in this matter do not arise upon an attempted enforcement of legislation. The record before us and the record in the matter of Hooper v. McKenzie, post, 120, evidence the fact that responsible officers of the State, gentlemen whose opinions are entitled to the greatest respect, decline to undertake, at all, the enforcement of this statute. The differences of opinion of these gentlemen, the range, scope, and specifications of the attack upon, *113and the arguments and reasoning in support of, the…
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- Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls v. Clark CountyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- In re FerrierIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
- Farnham v. PierceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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