People ex rel. Frazer v. Wayne Circuit Judge

Two several appeals having been taken from the allowance and probate of the will of Alexander D. Eraser, deceased, the circuit court required them to be consolidated. A mandamus is now sought to rescind this order of consolidation.

In our opinion the action of that court was proper from abundant caution but it was entirely unnecessary, as the case was a single one and not capable of division. The proceedings in the circuit are precisely like those in the probate court, — statutory prerogative proceedings to determine the status of a dead man’s estate, and in no sense to be regarded as…