Detroit Lumber Co. v. Oakland Circuit Judge

On September 13, 1917, the then presiding judge of Oakland county circuit court dismissed for want of prosecution a chancery suit pending in that court, numbered 7155, entitled Detroit Lumber Company v. Wilson Construction Co., et al., appearing upon the calendar of that term as a case in which no progress had been made for more than a year. On learning of this counsel for plaintiff moved to set aside the order of dismissal, which was denied and application was then made to this court for a writ of mandamus .to compel defendant, now the judge of said court, to set aside the .order of…