Ware v. Loveridge

Kelator applies for a mandamus to compel respondent to assume jurisdiction over and try an informar tion for what is claimed to have been a breach of the peace. Such an application for the exercise of our extraordinary *490jurisdiction in a case of private trespass, for which a civil action, would lie, is unprecedented, as I believe, in jurisprudence.

The only instance in which we have ever before been called on for a mandamus was in a series of cases of felony affecting the public interests directly, where indictments had been found in the Wayne circuit court, and certified to the recorder’s…