Attorney General ex rel. Andrews v. Kallman

In this Court, on December 14, 1960, Paul L. Adams, the attorney general of the State of Michigan, upon the relation of Vernon J. Andrews, filed an information in the nature of quo warranto alleging that the defendant was appointed to and held illegally the office of circuit court commissioner for the county of Ingham. In his prayer for relief, the attorney general asked this Court to decree that the defendant was not lawfully appointed to said office.

The facts are not in dispute. On October 14,1960, Richard J. Brake, who had theretofore been elected to the office of circuit court…