Michigan Supreme Court, 1889

Brooks v. Hydorn

Brooks v. Hydorn
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided July 11, 1889
1 McGrath 1182; 76 McGrath 273

Brooks v. Hydorn

Opinion of the Court

To compel respondent to deliver the files records and dockets belonging to his office, as a justice of the peace of the City of Grand Hapids, to another justice, as provided by Act No. 200, Laws of 1889.

*1183Denied July 11, 1889.

Held, that tbe act referred to, which assumes to reduce the number of justices in said city to two and to legislate two of such officers out of office, is unconstitutional, the title failing to indicate any such object.

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