People ex rel. Shumway v. Bennett

This is a proceeding to inquire hy what warrant the respondent claims to exercise the office of president of the village of Fairfield in Lenawee county, Michigan.

The controversy is concerning the legal existence of that village, which was organized in December, 1873, under the village act of 1873.

The proceedings (except in one or two points) appear affirmatively to have followed the forms indicated hy the act. Thirty-four petitioners applied to the judge of the circuit court for Lenawee county, November 10, 1873, describing a tract of land in the township of Fairfield, con*453taining one thousand…