Abel v. Wayne County Sheriff

On December 28, 1946, Wyman S. Abel and 277 others filed a bill in the circuit court for the county of Wayne, in chancery, against Edward Behrendt, sheriff-elect of Wayne county, Andrew C. Baird, the incumbent sheriff, whose term of office expired three days later on December 31, 1946, the civil service commission of the county of Wayne, its members and personnel director, and the chairman and members of the Wayne county board of auditors. One of the plaintiffs, Mabel L. Seaborg, signed and swore to the bill of complaint as agent for all of the plaintiffs and on her own behalf. Eighty-three…