Maier v. Wayne Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by John Maier, by William T. Dust, his guardian, to compel Willard M. Lillibridge, circuit judge of Wayne county, to set aside an order entered by him in a proceeding to annul a marriage, granting a trial by jury of the issue as to complainant’s mental competency.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
A bill of complaint was filed in the Wayne county circuit court, in chancery, on behalf of John Maier, by William T. Dust, his guardian, duly appointed on the 24th day of July, 1896, by the probate court of said county (said Maier having been that day, and in that proceeding, adjudged by said court to be an incompetent person), to annul a pretended ceremony of marriage alleged to have been solemnized on the 19th day of June, 1896, procured and brought about by and through the fraud and duress of one Elizabeth Coyle, with whom he afterwards cohabited. The case was brought to an issue by answer…
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