Legal Opinion
Lawson v. Judge of the Recorder's Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided February 18, 1913No. Calendar No. 25,493PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Mandamus by Richard I. Lawson, corporation counsel of the city of Detroit, against William F. Connolly, judge of the recorder’s court of said city, to compel respondent to vacate an order dismissing certain proceedings for the violation of á municipal ordinance. Writ granted May 28, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, J.
Mandamus is sought to compel respondent to entertain a complaint made for an alleged violation of an ordinance enacted by the city of Detroit regulating the business of public moving vans. The section of the ordinance in question is as follows:
“Sec. 6. Any public moving van driver shall be entitled to receive the compensation provided in this ordinance immediately upon the transportation of his load. Each driver shall keep a record of the place from and the place to which he moves the household furniture of any person and the person for whom the same was moved; and on Monday of each week he…
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