In Re Payne

Defendant, the City of Muskegon Board of Civil Service Commissioners, appeals from the circuit court’s order of superintending control directing it to set aside plaintiff’s discharge and to determine an appropriate sanction less than discharge. Defendant contends inter alia that the circuit court used an improper standard when reviewing the board’s decision to affirm plaintiff’s firing. We agree.

In exercising superintending control over an inferior tribunal, a reviewing court is invoking an extraordinary power. In re Huff, 352 Mich 402; 91 NW2d 613 (1958). An order of superintending control,…