McBride v. Common Council of Grand Rapids

Cooley, J:

This case comes before us on writ of error to the circuit court for the county of Kent. The proceeding in the *361court below was an application for a mandamus to compel the respondents to issue a warrant in payment of a salary-claimed to be owing to him by the applicant. The circuit court denied the writ, and is understood to have done so on the ground of want of authority. : '

The authority, if there be any in the circuit courts, comes from the constitution. By Section eight of Article six of that instrument it is provided that “the circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction in…