Lyell v. St. Clair County

OPINION OF

THE COURT.

This is a suit in chancery, and is brought by the complainant to subject certain bonds, mortgages and other assets, under the control of the defendants, to the payment of two judgments at law recovered against them. Executions were issued on the judgments, which were returned nulla bona. The defendant demurred to the bill. In the Revised Acts of Michigan of 1846 (page 65), it is provided in the twenty-sixth section, that “whenever any controversy or cause of action shall exist between any of the counties of this state, and between any county and an individual or…