Gott v. Brigham
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Superior Court of Detroit. Assumpsit on common and special counts by Sophronia Brigham against John N. Gott. The declaration recited that Gott was an attorney whom the plaintiff had employed to invest $1,700 for her by way of loan at ten per cent, interest, “the said sum of money to be well and sufficiently secured, plaintiff to be properly and duly advised in regard thereto for her protection in the premises, until ” it be repaid her.
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Error to Superior Court of Detroit. Assumpsit on common and special counts by Sophronia Brigham against John N. Gott. The declaration recited that Gott was an attorney whom the plaintiff had employed to invest $1,700 for her by way of loan at ten per cent, interest, “the said sum of money to be well and sufficiently secured, plaintiff to be properly and duly advised in regard thereto for her protection in the premises, until ” it be repaid her. The declaration avers that defendant undertook and promised the plaintiff in consideration of the delivery to him of the money, to use due and…
1Opinion of the CourtMarston, J.
As regards the jurisdictional question, this case in its facts is within Grand Rapids etc. R. R. Co. v. Gray, 38 Mich., and cannot be distinguished therefrom. The question was first raised after the Superior Court of Detroit had been exercising its powers under-declarations similar to the one in this case for several years without its jurisdiction under them being questioned at the bar.
The Superior Court of Grand Eapids had been subsequently organized by the Legislature with the same general powers and without any restrictions upon its authority to prevent the exercise of the like power in…
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