Yerkes v. Smith
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Brooke, Hosmer, Rohnert, and Donovan, JJ. Mandamus by George B. Yerkes, prosecuting attorney of Wayne county, to compel Fred W. Smith, police commissioner of the city of Detroit, to enforce the law against the playing of baseball on Sunday. An order denying the writ is reviewed by relator on writ of certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The petition for certiorari in this cause shows that this proceeding is a continuation of an effort by certain clergymen, and perhaps others, to stop the *558playing of baseball upon Sunday in Detroit. The matter was before us in the case of Sweet v. Smith, 153 Mich. 674 (117 N. W. 59), upon a writ of certiorari to review the denial by the circuit court of a writ of mandamus to compel this samé respondent “ to execute and enforce all laws pertaining to the preservation of the Sabbath, ■ * * * at the baseball park of the Detroit Club ” — i. e., the Detroit Baseball Club.
We held in that case that…
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