Case Name: The People ex rel. Joshua E. Dickinson v. Thomas L. Sackett
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1867-04-20
Citations: 15 Mich. 315
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People ex rel. Joshua E. Dickinson v. Thomas L. Sackett.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 315–316

Head Matter:
The People ex rel. Joshua E. Dickinson v. Thomas L. Sackett.
Quo Warranto: Pleadings, on suggestion of damages. The statute having established the form of pleadings on a suggestion of damages in quo warranto, the Supreme* Court will not prescribe any other.
Heard April 16th.
Decided April 20th.
Suggestion for damages in quo warranto.
G-. V. N. Loihrop, for relator.
Maynard and Meddaugh, for respondent.

Opinion:
In this case, an information in the nature of quo warranto had been previously filed by the Attorney General on the relation of Dickinson against Sackett, for the purpose of obtaining possession of the office of Register of Deeds of Macomb county. Judgment was rendered by this court — 14 Mioh. 821 — that said relator was entitled to the office.
The relator in this proceeding filed a suggestion of damages under the statute — 2 Comp. L. §5297 — against Sackett for the detention of the said office, and asked that the court frame special issues, to be tried by the jury in the. Macomb Circuit.
The court held that the statute having established the form of pleadings in such cases, they would not prescribe a different form; and that the case must go down for trial upon the statutory issue.