People ex rel. Christopher v. Circuit Judge

The relator appealed a case from a justice’s court to the circuit court for the county of Kent, and that court has dismissed the appeal on affidavits showing that one of the parties to the case resides within the city of Grand Rapids. The action of the court is based upon the supposition, that by the act creating the Superior Court of Grand Rapids (Laws 1875, p. 42) and the act amendatory thereof (Laws 1877, p. 138), jurisdiction of cases appealed from justices’ courts where one of the parties resides in tbe city of Grand Rapids, is taken from the circuit court and conferred upon the Superior…