Fitzgerald v. Bixler

By our long delayed grant of the last of defendant’s many petitions for rehearing of Fitzgerald v. Bixler, 350 Mich 688, we acknowledge candidly judicial errors requiring self-correction.. Unlike Romatz v. Romatz, 355 Mich 81, in which,.we acknowledged and corrected a prior erroneous declaration of law, the errors to which we here confess are errors of procedural fact upon which our prior decision was based.1

Plaintiff was awarded a jury verdict for $6,000 against defendant, a member of our bar, for conversion of money. After entry of judgment the trial judge, the Honorable Arthur Webster,…