Goetz v. Black

Alfred Goetz and 17 other plaintiffs have each brought an independent suit against Edward D. Black, defendant, to recover a statutory penalty. For the piirpose of appeal only, the 18 cases have been consolidated and considered as one. Each plaintiff claims that after being arrested and illegally detained for several days in the Genesee county jail, he caused, oh the 10th day of July, 1930, a petition for habeas corpus in legal and proper form to be presented to defendant, one of the circuit judges of Genesee county, and that defendant refused to grant the petition and order the issuance of…