Attorney General v. Murray

A bill in equity was filed by the attorney general in the circuit court of Ingham county asking permanent injunction to restrain defendant from maintaining an alleged nuisance consisting in an encroachment of a building upon a public street of the city of Mackinac Island, on the Island of Mackinac, in the county of Mackinac. Defendant made a motion in the nature of a demurrer to dismiss the bill on jurisdictional grounds, which was denied, and the proceeding appealed to this court for review.

Introductorily the bill describes the location of the island of Mackinac, having upon it a State park…