Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney v. Wayne County Board of Commissioners

On June 17, 1971, plaintiff filed a complaint for a declaratory judgment and injunc-tive relief against the defendants to restrain them from putting into effect the provisions of a resolution adopted on the same day by the Wayne County Board of Commissioners. The resolution created an office of corporation counsel for Wayne County to represent the county in all civil matters, which action was based upon findings of fact (1) that the volume and complexity of the county’s civil litigation had increased; (2) that the prosecutor had failed to increase the size of his civil division despite…