Attorney General ex rel. Hooper v. Loomis
Michigan Supreme Court
Quo warranto proceedings by John E. Bird, attorney general, on the relation of Joseph L. Hooper, prosecuting attorney of Calhoun county, against Fred W. Loomis to try the title to the office of judge of the municipal court of Battle Creek.
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Quo warranto proceedings by John E. Bird, attorney general, on the relation of Joseph L. Hooper, prosecuting attorney of Calhoun county, against Fred W. Loomis to try the title to the office of judge of the municipal court of Battle Creek. Act No. 392, Local Acts 1905, to'test the validity of which this suit was brought, is as follows: ‘ £An act to amend sections one and two of chapter three; and section one of chapter twenty-three, and to add to said chapter twenty-three twenty-five sections to be known as sections two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
At its 1905 session the legislature enacted and gave immediate effect to an act which is set out at length above. Act No. 392, Local Acts 1905. Later, at the same session, another act was passed and given immediate effect, which declares of the act first referred tb that the court therein provided for—
“Was intended to and is hereby declared to have all the authority, powers and. jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and the municipal judge provided for therein, together with the associate judge when acting in his place and stead, was intended to be and is hereby declared to be and…
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