McCarthy v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Plaintiff, John P. McCarthy, while serving as a lieutenant of the police department of Detroit, was a witness before Honorable Homer Ferguson, a judge of the circuit court of Wayne county, who was conducting an investigation under the statute (3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 17217 et seq. [Stat. Ann. § 28.943 et ■ seq.]) for the purpose of ascertaining whether certain violations of the criminal laws were prevalent in Wayne county. During the course of plaintiff’s examination the circuit judge, being of the opinion that the answers given by plaintiff were “evasive” and that plaintiff was guilty of…