Peasley v. Lapeer Circuit Judge

As in Douglas v. Edgewater Park Co., 369 Mich 320, 331, *229this Court faces anew forked trails of divergent legal travel. The only difference is that this time, should the Court take the wrong path of commitment, a final turning point will have been reached and passéd in the ever-continuing battle to preserve inviolate a basic right which, throughout this State’s history commencing with the Ordinance of 1787,1 has remained under vigilant guardianship of the Supreme Court of Michigan.

The right of trial by jury is pricelessly precious. Yet for years the busiest of professorial legal ghouls have…