Murphy Chair Co. v. Attorney General

The relators have requested the attorney general to file an information in equity to test the validity of a certain contract made by the warden and' board of control of the State house of correction and re*564formatory at Ionia and the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, which they claim is in violation of section 3 of article 18 of the Constitution. The attorney general has refused the request, asserting that section 3 of article 18 was stricken from the Constitution by the constitutional amendment submitted to the electors April 1, 1907, by joint resolution passed March 6, 1907.

The relators claim…