Parsons v. Russell
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. Plaintiffs in error brought action upon a bond given by defendants in error for the release of the steamer Illinois, which had been seized under the Boat and Vessel Law, so called (chapter 149 of Compiled Laws), on a warrant issued by T. S. Blackmar, a Circuit Court Commissioner of Wayne county. The bond was conditioned for the payment to plaintiffs in error of the sum of $761 96, the amount of their claim for which the boat was seized.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. Plaintiffs in error brought action upon a bond given by defendants in error for the release of the steamer Illinois, which had been seized under the Boat and Vessel Law, so called (chapter 149 of Compiled Laws), on a warrant issued by T. S. Blackmar, a Circuit Court Commissioner of Wayne county. The bond was conditioned for the payment to plaintiffs in error of the sum of $761 96, the amount of their claim for which the boat was seized. The defendants' demurred to the declaration, assigning several special causes; but as the constitutionality of the Boat and Vessel Law…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin Ch. J.:
The constitutionality of the Boat and Vessel Law is the first question to be considered in this case, for if the law be found to be unconstitutional the plaintiffs have no standing in Court, and all the minor questions raised by *121the record are unimportant. It is contended by tbe defendants that the law violates that provision of the Constitution which declares that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
Whatever may be the difficulty of defining this phrase of the Constitution when sought to be applied to other proceedings, when used…
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