Brevoort v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Plaintiffs are seeking a writ of mandamus directing the defendant to grant an extension of time to settle the bill of exceptions in a certain case, tried before him while sitting in the Wayne circuit in June, 1917, wherein Ralph Phelps and Orla B. Taylor were plaintiffs and the plaintiffs here were defendants. The case was an action of ejectment brought to recover a strip of land on Grosse Isle, and grew out of a boundary line dispute. A verdict was directed in favor of plaintiffs on June 19, 1917. No motion was made for a new trial. The proceedings relative to the bill of exceptions were as…