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BROWER ET AL. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne)

Michigan Supreme Court1850
1 McGrath 1721 M., 359

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Opinion

majority opinion

To vacate an order dismissing an appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace.

Denied 1850.

The order of dismissal is a judgment that may be reviewed within the meaning of Laws 1849, Sec. 67, p. 288.

A mandamus will be allowed to set an inferior court in motion, but not for the purpose of requiring the court to come to any particular conclusion, or retrace its steps where it has already acted.