Van Renselaer v. Whiting
Cases that cite this one
8 later published cases cite this decision.
- Smith v. Meemic Insurance (Mich. Ct. App. 2009)
- Partch v. Baird (Mich. 1924)
- Finlen v. Skelly (Ill. 1923)
- United States Surety Co. v. American Fruit Product Co. (D.C. Cir. 1913)
- Lyle v. Cass Circuit Judge (Mich. 1909)
- Sturgis, Cornish & Burn Co. v. Miller (Neb. 1907)
- Hayes v. Ionia Circuit Judge (Mich. 1900)
- Campau v. Coates (Mich. 1868)
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Opinion of the Court
We do not consider it necessary to discuss the question whether certiorari will lie in cases like the present, as upon the merits we think the writ must be dismissed» The effect of vacating the judgment as J. Tallman Whiting was to vacate it as to the other defendant also; and there is now no judgment in the case. The parties have therefore now all the rights in the Circuit Court which they would have in any case of the vacation of a judgment.
Where the Circuit Courts have power to set aside verdicts, grant new trials and vacate judgments, it is a discretionary power, the exercise of which we can not review» The present case comes within this principle.
The certiorari must be dismissed, with costs.
The order in terms sets aside the judgment as to J'» T. Whiting only. I think it should have set it aside as
Writ dismissed.
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