Checker Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Wayne Circuit Judge

This petition for writ of mandamus, involves the power of a circuit judge to deny a stay of proceedings upon the filing of a copy of an insurance policy as provided for under PA 1917, No 256, pt 3, ch 2, § 33a, added by PA 1935, No 45 (CL 1948* § 522.33a [Stat Ann 1943 Rev § 24.297]). •

On October 11, 1950, judgments were entered in the case of Catherine Hodgdon v. Stanley M. Barr and Jim Stankye in the amount of $10,000 and in the case of Fred Hodgdon v. Stanley M. Barr and Jim Stankye in the amount of $2,000 in the circuit court of Wayne county. An appeal was taken by defendants to the…