Case Name: MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. v. MILLER
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1909-08-17
Citations: 158 Mich. 88
Docket Number: Calendar No. 23,541
Parties: MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. v. MILLER.
Judges: Hooker, Moore, McAlvat, and Brooke, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 158
Pages: 88–89

Head Matter:
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. v. MILLER.
Eminent Domain — Review—Certiorari—Appeal and Error.
An application for the writ of certiorari to review rulings made by the circuit court upon preliminary objections in proceedings in eminent domain is premature before verdict.
Condemnation proceedings by the Michigan Central Railroad Company against Edwin Miller and others: On motion of relator to dismiss a writ of certiorari.
Submitted August 14, 1909.
(Calendar No. 23,541.)
Motion granted August 17, 1909.
Gray & Gray, for the motion.
Albert McClatehey, contra.

Opinion:
Ostrander, J.
A writ of certiorari was allowed to review the determination of the circuit court for the county of Wayne in condemnation proceedings overruling certain preliminary objections to the proceedings, and ordering a jury to determine the necessity for taking certain property and to fix the damages to be paid therefor. A motion is now made to dismiss the writ upon the grounds: (1) That it was prematurely issued; (2) because the proceedings are not reviewable on certiorari. Upon an examination of the application made for the writ we are agreed that no good reason appears for interfering, at this stage of the proceedings, by certiorari, with the action of the circuit court.
The writ will be dismissed as improvidently granted, without prejudice to either party.
Hooker, Moore, McAlvat, and Brooke, JJ., concurred.