Attorney General ex rel. Crane v. Amos
Michigan Supreme Court
Information to test the right of the respondent to hold the office of Alderman.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
The attorney general has filed an information in the nature of a quo wamranto against Ferdinand Amos, in which he alleges that the respondent usurps, intrudes into, and claims to exercise, a false, fictitious, and pretended office, known as the office of alderman of the Sixteenth ward of the city of Detroit.
The respondent pleads that the Sixteenth ward of the city of Detroit is ordained and established by virtue of two acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, known as acts numbered 358 and 398 of the Local Acts of the Session of 1885. To this plea the attorney general demurs, for the…
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