Fornia v. Wayne Circuit Judge

This is an application for a mandamus against one of the Wayne circuit judges, requiring him to proceed with the trial of a certain cause pending in said court before a jury, wherein relator is plaintiff and the city of Detroit is defendant. After the jury in said case was duly impaneled and sworn, defendant filed a challenge to the array for the following reasons:

“ 1. The act under which said jurors have been drawn and taken their seats for the trial of this cause is Act No. 31 of the Public Acts of 1903, which act is void because it violates article 4, § 20, of the Constitution of the State…