Case ID: mich_23/html/0286-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benjamin Zeller v. Dwayne Harris.
    
      Practice in supreme court: What essential in case made. Where-a judgment of a justice of the peace ia brought by certiorari to the circuit court, and there affirmed, and the judgment of the circnit court is brought to this court for review on case made after judgment, the return of the justice to the writ of certiorari is an essential part of the record, without which this court will not take jurisdiction of the cause.
    
      Heard and decided July 11.
    
    Case made after judgment from Cass Circuit.
    Harris sued Zeller iu assumpsit before a justice of the peace, and recovered judgment. Zeller removed the cause, by certiorari, to the circuit court for the county of Cass, where the judgment was affirmed. It now comes before this court upon what is intended as a case made after judgment. The case does not set forth the return of the justice to the writ of certiorari.
    
    
      Edward Bacon, for plaintiff in certiorari.
    
    
      G. M. Aboard, for defendant in certiorari.
    
   The Court

held that the return of the justice to the writ of certiorari was an essential part of the record, without which this court would not take jurisdiction of the cause.

Case dismissed.