People ex rel. Delbridge v. Green
Michigan Supreme Court
Application for mandamus. The relator, a private citizen, whose only interest in the matter, so far as set forth, consists in convenience of his access to the offices to consult the records, etc., and to procure subpoenas, etc., applied for mandamus to compel the respondent, who has been elected county clerk and register of deeds for Benzie county, to keep his offices at Frankfort, the former county seat, instead of at Benzonia where he has removed them, and where he claims…
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Application for mandamus. The relator, a private citizen, whose only interest in the matter, so far as set forth, consists in convenience of his access to the offices to consult the records, etc., and to procure subpoenas, etc., applied for mandamus to compel the respondent, who has been elected county clerk and register of deeds for Benzie county, to keep his offices at Frankfort, the former county seat, instead of at Benzonia where he has removed them, and where he claims the county seat has been lawfully removed by action of the supervisors aná the electors of the county. The respondent…
1Opinion of the Court
The court
held, that even if mandamus can be resorted to at all for such "’a purpose, the application should come from the proper public officer, which in this court is the attorney general; and that the relator had not made such, a showing of special interest in the matter as authorized him to petition in his own behalf, or of efforts to procure the proper public officer to proceed, such as would authorize him to intervene in behalf of the public.
Writ denied.
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