Case Name: COMSTOCK ET AL. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Alpena)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1897-02-02
Citations: 1 McGrath 375
Docket Number: No. 16053
Parties: COMSTOCK ET AL. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Alpena),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 375–375

Head Matter:
COMSTOCK ET AL. vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Alpena),
No. 16053.

Opinion:
To compel respondent to approve a bond in the penal sum of $250, on appeal by relators from, an order appointing a receiver.
Denied, with costs, February 2, 1897.
Relators and Jos. B. Comstock were partners. Jos. B. Corn-stock died August 17, 1894. In December, 1895, relators filed a bill for an accounting and to close up the partnership matters. At the instance of defendants' a 'receiver was appointed, from which appointment complainants gave notice of appeal and tendered a bond in the sum of $250, which the circuit judge refused to approve. The circuit judge returns that it was made to appear before him that the interest 'of the decedent in said co-partnership was worth upwards of $100,000, and the court •ordered a bond in that sum.