Board of Metropolitan Police v. Board of Auditors

This is an application to compel the respondents to pay out of the treasury of Wayne county the expense claimed by relators to have been incurred in patrolling certain territory in the townships outside of Detroit under section 33 of Act No. 313, Laws of 1887, popularly known as the “Liquor Law.” A defense was put in by respondents to the effect that no duty such as that statute purports to lay upon them can be legally enforced. The argument was chiefly based on grounds independent of those affecting the constitutional objections applicable to other questions arising on the law, and the case…