Potter v. Wayne County

The question presented is not complex.

The question is whether plaintiff Ellen A. Potter is entitled to maintain a class action against the defendant County of Wayne to recover interest paid by a bank on deposits by the Wayne County Clerk of funds held by the clerk as escrow agent for the plaintiff and other members of the class she seeks to represent.

I would reverse the judgment entered by the circuit court dismissing the complaint and remand for a determination of the amounts to which Mrs. Potter and other members of the class are severally entitled.

On April 21, 1965, the then presiding…