Case Name: PONTIAC, OXFORD & NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. OAKLAND CIRCUIT JUDGE
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1905-12-15
Citations: 142 Mich. 257
Docket Number: Calendar No. 21,165
Parties: PONTIAC, OXFORD & NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. OAKLAND CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Judges: Moore, O. J., and Blair, Montgomery, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 142
Pages: 257–257

Head Matter:
PONTIAC, OXFORD & NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. OAKLAND CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Mandamus — Propriety—Remedy by Appeal.
Mandamus will not lie to compel the vacation of an order appointing a receiver of a railroad corporation, since there is an adequate remedy by appeal from the order. „
Mandamus by the Pontiac, Oxford & Northern Railroad Company to compel George W. Smith, circuit judge of Oakland county, to set aside an order appointing a receiver.
Submitted June 27, 1905.
(Calendar No. 21,165.)
Decided December 15, 1905.
Russel & Campbell, for relator.
Angelí, Boynton, McMillan & Bodman, for respondent.

Opinion:
McAlvay, J.
Relator, a railroad corporation of this State, applies for a mandamus to compel the circuit judge of Oakland county to vacate an order appointing a receiver of said corporation in a certain suit pending in the circuit court of said county in chancery.
There is nothing in the case to make it an exception to the general rule repeatedly recognized by this court, "that orders appointing receivers' whereby the possession of property is divested are appealable. " Mardian v. Wayne Circuit Judge, 118 Mich. 353, and cases cited. Relator has an adequate remedy by appeal from said order. Mandamus will not lie when there is another adequate remedy. See Mardian v. Wayne Circuit Judge, supra, and cases cited.
The writ is denied, with costs.
Moore, O. J., and Blair, Montgomery, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.