People ex rel. Goodsell v. Post

Michigan Supreme Court
People ex rel. Goodsell v. Post, 30 Mich. 353 (Mich. 1874)
1874 Mich. LEXIS 192

People ex rel. Goodsell v. Post

Opinion of the Court

The Court

held that whether or not, if but one thousand dollars would be required, the commissioners would have been fixed with a legal duty to rebuild, which ought to be enforced by mandamus, or whether the proper remedy would not have been a prosecution for misbehavior in office, it is clear that as the statute (Comp. L. 1871, § 1806) requires the commissioners to go on in such a case as this only when the expense would not exceed one thousand dollars, no such legal duty would arise where the expense, as in this case, would greatly exceed that sum.

Mandamus denied, with costs against the relators.

Reference

Full Case Name
The People on the relation of Rier N. Goodsell and others v. William T. McKenzie Post and others
Cited By
2 cases
Status
Published