Case Name: MOORE v. WAYNE CIRCUIT JUDGE
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1905-09-20
Citations: 141 Mich. 398
Docket Number: Calendar No. 21,133
Parties: MOORE v. WAYNE CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Judges: Moore, C. J., and McAlvay, Grant, and Montgomery, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 398–399

Head Matter:
MOORE v. WAYNE CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Banks and Banking — Receivers — Deposits with State Treasurer — Duty of Court.
Section 6144, 2 Comp. Laws, requires receivers of State banks to pay over all money collected by them to the State treasurer, and it is the duty of the circuit court to require its receiver to comply with such requirement.
Mandamus by George W. Moore, State bank commissioner, to compel Joseph W. Donovan, circuit judge of Wayne county, to issue an order requiring the Union Trust Company, receiver of the City Savings Bank of Detroit, to turn over all money collected or received by it as such receiver, to the State treasurer.
Submitted June 22,1905.
(Calendar No. 21,133.)
Writ granted September 20, 1905.
John E. Bird, Attorney General (Roger Irving Wykes, of counsel), for relator.
Henry M. Campbell and Frederick W. Whiting, for respondent.

Opinion:
Hooker, J.
Section 6144, 2 Comp. Laws, requires that receivers of State banks "pay over all money so collected or received to the State treasurer," etc.
The Union Trust Company, acting as receiver of the City Savings bank of Detroit, has not complied with this statute, and the respondent, before whom the proceedings are pending, has refused to order compliance, and an application is made to this court to compel such action. We see no ambiguity or uncertainty in the language of the statute. With the question of the wisdom of such legislation we have nothing to do. Real or imaginary inconvenience to parties has no effect upon the question.
The writ will issue, requiring the court to order the payment of all money collected or received by the receiver to the State treasurer forthwith.
Moore, C. J., and McAlvay, Grant, and Montgomery, JJ., concurred.