Stow v. Common Council of Grand Rapids
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relators apply for mandarmts to compel action under Act No. 449, Local Acts of 1889, providing for the creation of two new wards in the city of Grand Rapids. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The Legislature of 1889 passed an act providing for the addition of two more wards in the city of Grand Rapids, to be called the Ninth and Tenth; the Ninth to be created by a division of the old Eighth, and the Tenth carved out of territory belonging to the old *596Third. See Act No. M9, Local Acts of 1889, p. 877.
The common council haying refused to' recognize or act under this law, we are asked to compel them to do so by mandamus. The respondents resist this application upon two grounds:
1. That the act was not passed in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
2. That it is too…
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