People ex rel. Nichols v. Palmer
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. On the 27th day of April, 1869, the relator moved in this Court that the respondent be ordered to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue to compel him to pay a State bounty of $100 to the relator, and offered the following affidavit: “State of Michigan, County of "Wayne.
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Mandamus. On the 27th day of April, 1869, the relator moved in this Court that the respondent be ordered to show cause why a peremptory mandamus should not issue to compel him to pay a State bounty of $100 to the relator, and offered the following affidavit: “State of Michigan, County of "Wayne. On this twenty-third day of April, A. D. 1869, before me, a Notary Public, in and for the said County and State, personally came John S. Nichols, who being by me duly sworn, deposes and says : That he is twenty one years of age, and a resident of the city of Detroit in said county and state. That…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley Oh. J.
In order to determine whether the township of Algansee had filled its quota under the call of October 17, 1863, at the time the relator enlisted and was credited to that township, we think' the authorities should have taken into account, and allowed the township its proportion, of the general credits which the State had already received upon that call at the hands of the general government, the benefits of which, as they could not be specifically applied to any localities, all localities were proportionally entitled to. And we think it was unimportant whether these credits had…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Lomane v. HammondMichigan Supreme Court · 1865