Sprister v. City of Sturgis

The first action 4s quo warranto to test the validity of amendments of the charter of the city of Sturgis. On motion the proceeding, after full hearing and taking the testimony, was dismissed and plaintiff brings error.

The city has a charter adopted under the home-rule act, 1 Comp. Laws 1915, § 3304 et seq., as amended. It has a city commission of five members elected at large, one elected each year for a term of five years. The main feature or purpose of the amendments adopted by the people at an election was to abolish such body and to provide for a commission of nine members, one to be…