Legal Opinion

Michigan Mutual Fire Insurance v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 6, 1897PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Mandamus by the Michigan Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Lansing to compel Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judge of Wayne county, to dismiss a suit for want of proper service.

1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.

The office of the relator is at Lansing, Mich. The Improved Match Company commenced suit against the relator, by summons, in the circuit court in Wayne county. No service was had of this summons, and an alias summons was taken out, and an order made, based upon an affidavit filed in the cause, directing the service to be made upon George E. Moody, and that a copy be mailed at Detroit, Mich., to .the relator, at Lansing, Mich. The relator appeared, and moved to quash the summons, because the service was not properly made, and was not made upon the defendant, nor upon an officer or agent of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Talbot Paving Co. v. Common CouncilMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
  2. People ex rel. Townsend v. Cass Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1878

3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Improved-Match Co. v. Michigan Mutual Fire InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
  2. St. Clair Tunnel Co. v. St. Clair Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1897
  3. Hartz v. JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1910
  4. Steel v. Clinton Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1903
  5. Cosgrove v. Wayne Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1906

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