United States Gypsum Co. v. Kent Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by the United States Gypsum Company and others to compel Willis B. Perkins, circuit judge of Kent county, to vacate an order setting aside certain condemnation proceedings.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
The Pere Marquette Railroad Company proceeded in the probate court for the county of Kent to condemn certain lands for a right of way. To the petition an answer was filed by relators, by which the sufficiency of various averments of the petition is challenged as well as the truth of some of them, and, among others, an issue of fact was made, the substance and effect of which is sufficiently indicated by the following quotation from the answer:
“ In further defénse of this action, we allege that this court has no jurisdiction to entertain this proceeding because the same is not in fact…
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