¶1held that to review the validity of the justice’s judgment on this writ would be to assail it collaterally, and that it is not open to collateral • attack for such defects. —See Reed v. Gage, supra, p. 179.
¶2Writ quashed.
33 Mich. 182
Mayhew v. Snell
Decided January 7, 1876
Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1876-01-07
This writ was sued out to review the action of tho court below in declining on motion to vacate a judgment docketed in the circuit upon a transcript filed therein of a justice’s judgment. The grounds of the motion, were, (1) that the affidavit for the transcript was not signed; and (2) that the justice’s judgment was Yoid for want of proof of authority of the plaintiff’s attorney, the defendant having failed to appear. — See Comp. L. 1871, § 5305.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1907
2 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1876-01-07
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