People ex rel. Wiley v. Judge of Allegan Circuit

Though it is true in a qualified sense that the payment’ of one dollar to the justice for making his return to an appeal under the justice’s act, is not necessarily a jurisdictional fact, because the justice may waive its payment, and may make his return without it, in which case it will, under section 201/. {Comp. L., § 51/52), be conclusively presumed to have been paid; yet, on the other hand, the payment within five days after the rendition of the judgment, of this one dollar to the justice for making his return, as well as the costs of the opposite party included in the judgment, is, by…