Cosgrove v. Wayne Circuit Judge

On the 6th of December, 1905, relator obtained judgment against James D. Burns, sheriff of Wayne county, in the justice’s court of the city of Detroit, for the sum of $418 damages and $1.75 costs. Respondent made an order granting said Burns leave to appeal from said judgment more than five days after its. rendition upon a showing that he, said Burns, had been prevented from taking an appeal within said five days by circumstances not under his control. Relator by these proceedings seeks a mandamus compelling respondent to-vacate said order upon the ground that he had no authority whatever to…