Cattermole v. Ionia Circuit Judge

The quashing of the writ or service in a case, upon a motion to quash, has often been raised in different classes of cases, such as capias, attachment, summons, declaration, garnishment, and replevin, and in many of them the orders or judgments have been set aside on mandamus. In the majority of these, opinions have not been written, and there is little to indicate the considerations which actuated the court, where, if in any of them, it has omitted to apply the rule that “mandamus will not lie where there is a remedy by writ of error or appeal.” In no case, so far as we have discovered, has…