Case Name: BAKER vs. BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS (Port Huron)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1886-07-01
Citations: 1 McGrath 1176
Docket Number: 
Parties: BAKER vs. BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS (Port Huron),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 1176–1180

Head Matter:
BAKER vs. BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS (Port Huron),
62 M., 327.

Opinion:
To compel the commissioners to receive and acknowledge relator as a member of the commission, where the charter pro vides that all officers appointed by the council shall be appointed by a majority of the members-elect, and at a meeting of the council attended by eleven out of twelve members of that body, acting -upon the nomination made by the mayor, six of those present voted for relator's appointment and five against it.
Denied July 1, 1886.
Held, that the charter provision applied to members of the police board.