Dewey v. Duyer

This was a proceeding taken under Comp. L., ch. 215, to enforce a claim for $62.65 in the circuit court as a mechanic’s lien. Although the certificate of lien described the supposed debtors as Zebel C. Duyer and Ellen Duyer, and the petition and other papers on the part of complainants so described them, it would seem that their true names were Zebel C. Guyer and Ellen Guyer, and not Duyer. But this is not important now. The circuit judge dismissed the petition for want of jurisdiction and the petitioners appealed.

The ruling was correct. The jurisdiction is statutory and does not depend upon…