Burroughs v. Eastman

The defendants, who are, respectively, superin*434tendent, captain, and lieutenant of the police force in the city of Grand Rapids, were prosecuted by a writ of capias ad respondendum, issued out of the circuit court for the county of Kent. Defendants gave bail to the sheriff, and in due time bail to the action, and before the time limited for filing their plea they interposed a special motion to quash the writ, because the defendants, in the commission of the alleged grievances, were acting as city officers of the city of Grand Rapids, and, under the act creating the superior court of that city,…