Case Name: Oren H. Burlingame v. Lansing Marble
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1893-03-10
Citations: 95 Mich. 5
Docket Number: 
Parties: Oren H. Burlingame v. Lansing Marble.
Judges: The other Jiistices concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 95
Pages: 5–6

Head Matter:
Oren H. Burlingame v. Lansing Marble.
Justices of the peace — Log-lien proceedings — Jurisdiction.
1. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace in proceedings under the log-lien law is governed by the general statute.
2. A justice of the peace has no jurisdiction to issue an attachment under the log-lien law where the parties are residents of his county, but not of the township in which he resides, nor of an adjoining township.
Error to Benzie. (Aldrich, J.)
Submitted on briefs January 10, 1893.
Decided March 10, 1893.
Attachment proceedings under log-lien law. Defendant brings - error.
Reversed.
The facts are stated in the opinion.
JV. A. Parker, for appellant.
Oovell & Gilbert, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
McGrath, J.
Proceedings were commenced before a justice of the peace in the township of Benzonia, in the county of Benzie, by attachment, to enforce a logger's lien under Act No. 229, Laws of 1887. Defendant did not appear, and plaintiff had judgment. The case was removed to the circuit by certiorari, and the judgment was there affirmed. Both of the parties resided, in Benzie county, but neither of them resided in the township of Benzonia, nor in an adjoining township. It is contended that the jurisdiction of the justice is governed by How. Stat. § 6818, as amended by Act No. 118, Laws of .1885, and that the proceedings are void. This contention is -correct.
Section 5 of Act 229 provides that liens may be enforced—
" By attachment in the circuit and justices' courts of the county in which said products may be situated."
Section 9 provides that—
"Justices of the peace; within their respective counties, shall have cognizance and jurisdiction of all cases arising under this act, when the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars."
This act contains no such language as would warrant us in determining that it was the intention of the Legislature to enlarge the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in this* class of cases.
The judgment is therefore reversed.
The other Jiistices concurred.