DEARBORN TWP. v. DEARBORN TWP. CLERK

Docket No. 36, Calendar No. 45,485.

334 Mich. 673 (1952)

55 N.W.2d 201

TOWNSHIP OF DEARBORN v. DEARBORN TOWNSHIP CLERK.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse W. Bollinger, for plaintiff.

Marx & Fewlass, for defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Gerald K. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, Hobart Taylor, Jr., Philip A. McHugh and Aloysius J. Suchy, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys.

Township of Nankin, by John J. Nellis, Township Attorney.

Township of Taylor, by Russel J. Comer, Township Attorney.

Townships of Sumpter and Brownstown, by Fred B. Hill, Township Attorney.

Elton R. Nellis, of counsel.


BUTZEL, J.

Revised Statutes of 1846, ch 16, § 70, provided that the supervisor, 2 justices of the peace and the township clerk of each organized Michigan township should constitute its township board, 3 of its 4 members constituting a quorum. PA 1935, No 19, and PA 1937, No 81, amended section 70 of chapter 16 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, so as to provide that in townships of under 5,000 population there was to...

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