Case Name: BURTON vs. REYNOLDS (County Clerk, Wayne)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1896-07-28
Citations: 1 McGrath 1619
Docket Number: No. 15476
Parties: BURTON vs. REYNOLDS (County Clerk, Wayne),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 1619–1619

Head Matter:
BURTON vs. REYNOLDS (County Clerk, Wayne),
No. 15476;
3 D. L. N., 447; 68 N. W., 217.

Opinion:
To compel respondent to permit relator, who is engaged in tbe business of making abstracts of titles to land, to inspect, examine and copy from file No. 8982, and from any other files in bis office.
Tbe circuit judge denied tbe writ. Affirmed, witb costs, July 28, 1896.
- Held, that until a case has been before tbe court for some judicial action, tbe files and records therein are not public records, and that th§re was no showing for such a necessity as established a legal right to inspect tbe record referred to.