Case ID: mich_119/html/0437-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHURCH v. ANTI-KALSOMINE CO.
    1. Circuit Courts — Order for Production of Books — Review-
    Mandamus.
    
      Mandamus is the proper proceeding-by which to review an order of the circuit court requiring?a defendant corporation to produce books and papers for the inspection of the plaintiff.
    2. Same — Commissioners—Certiorari.
    Circuit court commissioners are not authorized to interfere with proceedings in the circuit court by granting the writ of certiorari to a party aggrieved by a ruling of the circuit judge.
    Case by Melvin B. Church against the Anti-Kalsomine Company: On motion to dismiss a writ of certiorari, issued by a commissioner on defendant’s application.
    Submitted January 31, 1899.
    Granted March 6, 1899.
    
      Hyde, Earle & Thornton, for the motion.
    
      T. J. O’Brien (Fletcher & Wanty, of counsel), contra.
    
   Per Curiam.

The court in this case made an order that the defendant produce certain books and papers for the examination of plaintiff’s bookkeeper. Defendant applied to the circuit court commissioner to allow the writ of certiorari to this court to review this order. The commissioner allowed the writ. Plaintiff moves to dismiss it.

We think the motion must be granted. Mandamus is the proper remedy. Cummer v. Kent Circuit Judge, 38 Mich. 351; Petrie v. Muskegon Circuit Judge, 90 Mich. 265; Eddy v. Pay Circuit Judge, 114 Mich. 668.

We do not think it was the intention of the legislature to authorize a circuit court commissioner to interfere with proceedings in circuit courts, and thus permit an inferior officer or tribunal to decide that a superior one has committed error, and stop further proceedings by granting the writ of certiorari to review such action.

Motion granted, and writ dismissed.