LEWIS v. WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF

Docket No. 99, Calendar No. 45,575.

335 Mich. 640 (1953)

56 N.W.2d 211

LEWIS v. WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 8, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lipshy & Cohen (I. Goodman Cohen, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Cornelia Groefsema and John W. Gilmore, for defendants.


ADAMS, J.

This is an appeal from an order discharging a prisoner on habeas corpus. On April 8, 1952, Paul R. Lewis, appellee herein, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was being illegally detained in the Wayne county jail. The Wayne county sheriff, appellant herein, made a return showing that the petitioner was held by virtue of a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum issued August 14, 1951, in the...

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