People ex. rel. Treasurer v. Controller of City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Mcmcla/nms to B. G. Stimson, Controller of the City of .Detroit. The following is the petition filed: “ Your petitioner, Paul Gies, respectfully represents and states to the court now here, that he is the duly elected and qualified treasurer of the county of Wayne, in said state, and that being such treasurer it becomes and is the duty of all officers and other persons, who shall collect or receive any moneys on account of any fines for breaches of the penal laws and for…
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Mcmcla/nms to B. G. Stimson, Controller of the City of .Detroit. The following is the petition filed: “ Your petitioner, Paul Gies, respectfully represents and states to the court now here, that he is the duly elected and qualified treasurer of the county of Wayne, in said state, and that being such treasurer it becomes and is the duty of all officers and other persons, who shall collect or receive any moneys on account of any fines for breaches of the penal laws and for penalties, to pay the same over to your petitioner, within twenty days after the receipt thereof; that it is the duty of…
1Per curiam
All those fine moneys which were collected of persons convicted of drunkenness, or as disorderly persons or vagrants, amounting in all to $10,279, are within the previous decision of this court in Wayne County v. The City of Detroit, 17 Mich. 390, and there could have been no valid excuse for not paying them over on demand. We held before, that the penalties in those cases were not collected under the city ordinance at all,, but under section 11 of chapter 13 of the city charter: the city ordinance being a mere re-enactment of that section, and therefore entirely idle and nugatory.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- County of Wayne v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1868
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