Legal Opinion

Shook v. Proctor

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1873PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal in Chancery from Branch Circuit. Motion to dismiss appeal, for failure on the part of the appellant to serve the notice of appeal required by rule fourteen, within the time therein specified.

1Opinion of the Court

The Court

held that the notice in question is not one of jurisdiction. The court cannot pass a rule to deprive itself of a jurisdiction conferred upon it by statute.

Motion denied.

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Simpson v. Mansfield, Coldwater, & Lake Michigan RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
  2. Germania Importing Co. v. United StatesCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1917