Detroit Bar Ass'n v. Union Guardian Trust Co.

This is an injunction suit wherein plaintiffs seek to enjoin alleged unauthorized or unlawful practice of law by the defendant trust company, a Michigan corporation. From a decree granting injunctive relief, each party has appealed.

Concededly the defendant corporation is not licensed to practice law. Instead it is specifically prohibited by statute from doing so. In part the statute reads:

“It shall be unlawful for any corporation or voluntary association to practice or appear as an attorney at law for any person other than itself in any court in this State or before any judicial body, or to…