Case ID: mich_117/html/0328-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BECKER v. SAGINAW CIRCUIT JUDGE.
    Equity Practice — Time eor Taking Testimony — Extension on Cause Shown.
    The court may, in its discretion, extend the time to take testimony in a suit in equity, on the petition of complainant, where the reason given for failure to present the testimony at the proper time is that his solicitor had informed him that the court was not ready to take up the matter, and that such solicitor had left the State several months before, and had not returned.
    
      Mandamus by Oliver C. Becker and others to compel Eugene Wilber, circuit judge of Saginaw county, to vacate an order extending the time for taking testimony in a chancery suit.
    Order to show cause denied June 20, 1898.
    
      F. A. Rockwith and E. L. Beach, for relators.
   Per Curiam.

One Haack filed a bill in chancery March 2, 1896, against the relators. They appeared and answered March 9, 1896. Replication was filed March 25th. No demand to examine witnesses in open court was made. On February 21, 1898, Haack filed a petition for an order enlarging the time to take testimony, and setting forth as his reason for neglecting to introduce testimony at the proper time that his then solicitor informed him that the delay was due to the fact that the court was not ready to take up the matter, and that his said solicitor had left the State of Michigan several months before, and had not returned. The court entered an order granting the prayer of the petition. Relators ask to have this order set aside.

We think the circuit court acted within its jurisdiction, and exercised a proper discretion.

The order to show cause is denied.