Case Name: BROWN vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Kalamazoo)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1889-06-14
Citations: 1 McGrath 722
Docket Number: 
Parties: BROWN vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Kalamazoo),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 722–724

Head Matter:
BROWN vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Kalamazoo),
75 M., 274; 5 L. R. A., 226.

Opinion:
To require respondent to set aside a decree in a chancery cause tried by a jury under the provisions of Act No. 267, Laws of 1887, and to hear it in the usual manner.
Granted June 14, 1889.
Held, that the act referred to is unconstitutional; that the case had not been heard as it should have been, and that mandamus is a proper remedy to compel an original hearing in a chancery suit.