4 Mich. 528
Decided January 15, 1857
Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1857-01-15
This was a motion to quash a writ of error, for want of jurisdiction. The cause originated, before one of the Circuit Court Commissioners for the County of Wayne, acting under the provisions of Chapter 123, Revised Statutes; respecting the recovery of land in certain cases; it was taken by appeal.to the Circuit Court ’ for said County, where it was tried by a jury, and was brought into this -Court by writ of error, on exceptions to the charge of the Court.below.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently March 1917
2 state decisions
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Decided 1857-01-15
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¶1The Court held,
¶2delivering the opinion orally, that error was the proper remedy. That, granting the proceedings in their inception were summary, yet, after ¡their *530arrival in the Circuit, they were according to the course of the common law, and that, as certiorari only brings up the. question of jurisdiction, in the Court below, error is the only method of reviewing the charge of the Judge.
¶3The motion was overruled.