Brooks v. Hydorn
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applies for a mandamus to compel respondent to deliver the files, records, and docket belonging to his office, as a justice of the peace of the city of Grand Rapids, to another justice, as provided by Act No. 200, Laws of 1889. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The Legislature at its last session passed an act which sought to abolish the office of two justices of the peace in the city of Grand Eapids. The respondent is one of the persons thus attempted to be legislated out of office.
This act provided, among other things, that the files, records, and docket belonging to respondent’s office, from and after the fourth day of July, 1889, should be filed with the justice of the peace whose term of office should soonest expire by its own limitation. Such justice, it is admitted, is Thomas Walsh.
The relator, Harry A. Brooks, shows that on the seventh day…
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