Case Name: COUNCIL OF CITY OF HAMTRAMCK v. HAMTRAMCK CITY CLERK
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1938-06-30
Citations: 285 Mich. 390
Docket Number: Calendar No. 40,159
Parties: COUNCIL OF CITY OF HAMTRAMCK v. HAMTRAMCK CITY CLERK.
Judges: Butzel, Sharpe, Chandler, and North, JJ., concurred with Wiest, J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 285
Pages: 390–404

Head Matter:
COUNCIL OF CITY OF HAMTRAMCK v. HAMTRAMCK CITY CLERK.
Municipal Corporations — Calamity Bonds — Statutes.
Calamity bonds, issued by city to relieve distress of its inhabitants occasioned by widespread unemployment, remain calamity bonds, regardless of attempted mutation, may be in single or successive issues, but cannot, in aggregate amount, exceed thb limit fixed by law (1 Comp. Laws 1929, § 2231, as amended by Act No. 14, Pub. Acts 1932 [1st Ex. Sess.]).
Bushnell and McAllister, JJ., dissenting.
Petition by Council of the City of Hamtramck for a writ of mandamus to compel Prank Matulewicz, City Clerk, to sign calamity bonds.
Submitted June 16, 1938.
(Calendar No. 40,159.)
Writ denied June 30, 1938.
William Cohen, City Attorney (Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, of counsel), for plaintiff.
John Sklar, for defendant.

Opinion:
Wiest, C. J.
In City of Muskegon Heights v. Danigelis, 253 Mich. 260 (73 A. L. R. 696), we defined "calamity bonds," and I stand firmly by that decision.
"Calamity bonds" remain such, regardless of attempted mutation, may be in single or successive issues, but cannot, in aggregate amount, exceed the limit fixed by law.
I, therefore, concur in denying the writ.
Butzel, Sharpe, Chandler, and North, JJ., concurred with Wiest, J.