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32 Mich. 60

In re Stephenson

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 29, 1875

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1875-04-29

Habeas corpus and Certiorari. The prisoner was held by the sheriff of Van Burén county by virtue of his surrender by his special bail in an action commenced by capias by tbe Paw Paw railroad company against said Stephenson, and now pending in tbe Van Burén circuit.

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Decided 1875-04-29

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1943

4 state decisions

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The Coubt

¶1held that tbe putting in special bail and pleading in tbe canse did not operate as a waiver of jurisdictional' defects in tbe affidavit which is tbe basis of tbe origina! arrest; that tbe case made by tbe affidavit in question is one of an action “arising upon contract” within the meaning of that phrase as used in tbe statute (Clomp. L. 1871, § 5734), and not being one of those actions there enumerated as alone authorized to be commenced by capias, that the arrest and imprisonment was unwarranted and illegal.

¶2Prisoner discharged.

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