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24 Mich. 242

Parmalee v. Loomis

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 8, 1872

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1872-01-08

This was an action of case brought by Loomis against Parmalee and Alfred Bixby, for a breach of a warranty of title to a certain city order, drawn by one Benjamin C. Goodhue, contractor, upon the city clerk of Lansing, and payable to Mr. Parmalee for balance due Goodhue, for grading the streets of that city. The defendants delivered said order to the plaintiff in payment of an assessment against them, which he held for collection as city treasurer.

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Decided 1872-01-08

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Per Curiam.

¶1The objection that the cause was adjourned on the written stipulation of counsel, and without the personal presence of the parties, is not well taken. This is a very different case from a verbal agreement between parties out •of court, upon which action was had by the justice after-wards. In such a case the justice assumes to act upon information furnished by himself, of what the parties have agreed to elsewhere; but in this case, when he acts, he has before him the written stipulation of the parties, which is just as effectual for whatever agreenients are there incorporated, as any oral agreement then made in his presence would be.

¶2The objection that a replevin suit does not determine .the title, is also without force in a case in which the prop•erty is not taken on the writ, and where the plaintiff proceeds for damages. In such a case the same principles apply as in an action of trover.

¶3The service of a summons in his own favor by a .constable, is only an irregularity.

¶4The judgment below must be affirmed with costs.

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