Westbrook v. Blood

Westbrook recovered judgment before a justice of the peace, and the circuit court reversed it on certiorari. A reversal of the latter judgment is now sought on writ of error. The circuit court was confined to the ground of error in the affidavit for the certiorari. Witherspoon v. Clegg 12 Mich. 481; Fowler v. D. & M. Ry. Co. 7 Mich. 79. And as the case is here shaped, the general question is whether, in view of that ground, it appears that the judgment of reversal is erroneous.

The charges of error in the affidavit are based on a ruling by the justice refusing to allow John M. Robertson to…