Ellis v. Common Council of Grand Rapids
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Kent; Adsit, J. Mandamus by Hiram E. Ellis to compel the common council of the city of Grand Rapids, and Lant K. Salsbury, city attorney, to audit and allow a claim for services, and to revoke an order removing relator from office. From an order granting the writ, respondents bring certiorari.
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Certiorari to Kent; Adsit, J. Mandamus by Hiram E. Ellis to compel the common council of the city of Grand Rapids, and Lant K. Salsbury, city attorney, to audit and allow a claim for services, and to revoke an order removing relator from office. From an order granting the writ, respondents bring certiorari. Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1897 reads as follows; “Section 1. In every public department and all public departments in all municipal corporations, and upon, the public works of the State of Michigan, honorably-discharged Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late Rebellion…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). The first section of the act (No. 205, Pub. Acts 1897) gives preference for appointment and employment to honorably-discharged Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late Rebellion, in “all public departments of municipal corporations, and upon the public works of the State.” The second section provides that no such veteran “holding an office or employment in the public works of any city or town shall be removed,” etc. The learned counsel for relator insist that the term “public works,” in section 2, includes public departments. We cannot concur in this view- A…
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