Michigan Supreme Court, 1889

Brown v. Circuit Judge

Brown v. Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided June 14, 1889
1 McGrath 722; 75 McGrath 274

Brown v. Circuit Judge

Opinion of the Court

To require respondent to set aside a decree in a chancery cause tried by a jury under the provisions of Act No. 267, Laws ■of 1887, and to hear it in the usual manner.

Granted June 14, 1889.

Held, that the act referred to is unconstitutional; that the case *724had not been heard as it should have been, and that mandamus is a proper remedy to compel an original hearing in a chancery suit.

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