Legal Opinion
Fish v. Stockdale
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 4, 1896PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Certiorari to Allegan; Padgham, J. Mandamus by Fidus E. Fish, prosecuting attorney, to compel John B. Stockdale, a justice of the peace, to entertain a criminal complaint, and issue a warrant thereon. From an order denying the writ, relator brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The respondent refused to issue a warrant upon a complaint made under Act No. 186 of the Public Acts of 1893, upon the ground of its unconstitutionality. The title of the act is as follows:
“An act to amend section one of act number one hundred fifty-nine, Session Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-one, entitled ‘An act to regulate the taking and catching of fish in the inland waters of this State,’ approved June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred ninety-one.”
The title to the act amended reads as follows: “An act to regulate the taking and catching of fish in the *47inland lakes of this State.” There…
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