Scheel v. Muskegon Circuit Judge

Anton H. Scheel, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment for $241.10 damages, together with costs, against Robert T. Benefield and Anna Benefield, defendants, before a justice of the peace at Muskegon Heights, Michigan, on the 2d day of July, 1928. Four days later the defendants filed an affidavit and appeal bond and paid the necessary costs to appeal said cause to the circuit court. On August 6,1928, the return of the justice of the peace was filed in the circuit court. Three days later the attorney for and on behalf of the defendants filed a notice of retainer directed to the plaintiff and…