Case ID: mich_38/html/0304-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cooley, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Isaac M. Adams et al. v. James Abram.
    
      Certiorari — Costs—Service of attachment.
    
    A judgment in attachment is void on its face if it does not show that the writ was served as required by Comp. L., § 5276.
    Costs are denied a party prevailing on certiorari from the Supreme Court to a justice, if no reason appears for taking that course instead of seeking the appropriate remedy in the justice’s or circuit court.
    Certiorari to a justice of the peace.
    Submitted January 24.
    Decided January 29.
    
      G. C. Wattles for plaintiff in certiorari.
    
      Harrison Geer for defendant in certiorari.
   Cooley, J.

This is a case of certiorari to a justice’s court. The proceedings in that court were by attachment, and the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, were not personally served and did not appear. The plaintiff declared upon a justice’s judgment rendered in an attachment suit, and gave no evidence but the judgment itself. The judgment was void on its face-because it did not show a service of the writ as required by the statute. (See the preceding case.) The justice therefore erred in entering another judgment upon it.

In this case, however, as in the last, no reason appears for removing the proceedings to this court, instead of seeking the appropriate remedy in the justice’s court or in the circuit court. Costs are therefore denied.

The other Justices concurred.