Messenger v. Teagan
Michigan Supreme Court
Frank A. Messenger, Jr., applied to the circuit court for the county of Wayne for a writ of mandamus to compel John B. Teagan, one of the justices of the peace for the city of Detroit, to issue a summons in favor of relator wherein damages should be laid at the sum of $500. The •cause was heard before Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judge, who entered an order denying the writ, and relator brings the case to this court by certiorari.
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Frank A. Messenger, Jr., applied to the circuit court for the county of Wayne for a writ of mandamus to compel John B. Teagan, one of the justices of the peace for the city of Detroit, to issue a summons in favor of relator wherein damages should be laid at the sum of $500. The •cause was heard before Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judge, who entered an order denying the writ, and relator brings the case to this court by certiorari. Ernest A. Engel also applied to this court for mandamus to compel Judge Donovan to set aside an order made by him_ dismissing an appeal taken by relator from a…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The object of these suits is to test the constitutionality of an act “to establish and provide justices’ courts in the city of Detroit, and to repeal Act No. 280 of the Local Acts of 1883, entitled An act relative to justices’ courts in the city of Detroit,’ approved April 25, 1883, and all acts amendatory thereof.” Act No. 460, Local Acts 1895.
1. The first objection is that it is repugnant to section 20, art. 4, of the Constitution, which reads, “No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title.” The objection is not sound. The title is sufficiently…
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