Detroit Board of Education v. Getz

The board of education of the city of Detroit filed a petition in the recorder’s court for said city, seeking to condemn certain described real property for public use by Wayne university. In the course of the hearing on this petition before a jury, with Judge Paul E. Krause of the recorder’s court presiding, testimony was adduced showing that Judge Krause was a member of the faculty of Wayne university. Thereupon counsel for Rose Getz, the owner of a contract interest in one of the six parcels involved in the proceeding, moved the court to declare a mistrial on the ground that Judge Krause…