Legal Opinion

Civil Service Commission v. Engel

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 30, 1915No. Docket No. 109PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Wayne; Murphy, Van Zile, and Halley, JJ. Bill by the civil service commission of the city of Detroit against George Engel, city controller, to enjoin the payment of the salary of a clerk of the recorder’s court. From an order denying the injunction and dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

*84The recorder’s court of Detroit is established by the city charter. Act No. 55, Laws of 1857; Act No. 326, Local Acts of 1883; Act No. 408, Local Acts of 1893; section 280 et seq., Charter of Detroit, Compilation of 1904. Section 7, chap. 12, of the act provides:

“There shall be a clerk and two deputy clerks of said court, who shall be appointed by the recorder, and a memorandum of such appointments shall be entered upon the records of said court. Such clerk and deputy clerks shall hold their respective offices for the term of six years from and after January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and…

2Cited by8 opinions

Sabbe v. County of WayneMichigan Supreme Court · 1948
Hart v. Wayne CountyMichigan Supreme Court · 1976
Molitor v. City of Cedar RapidsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1985
Burton v. City of DetroitMichigan Supreme Court · 1916
Pryzbylowski v. Board of Commissioners of the PoorMichigan Supreme Court · 1915

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