PEOPLE EX REL. WEXFORD CTY PROSECUTING ATTY. v. KEARNEY

Docket No. 6, Calendar No. 46,626.

345 Mich. 680 (1956)

77 N.W.2d 115

PEOPLE, ex rel. WEXFORD COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, v. KEARNEY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied June 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and William R. Peterson, Prosecuting Attorney, Wexford County, for plaintiff.

Charles H. Menmuir and Stuart D. Hubbel, for defendant.


KELLY, J.

Defendant was elected judge of the recorder's court for the city of Cadillac for a 4-year term, commencing January 1, 1954. An information in the nature of quo warranto was filed, challenging defendant's right to hold the office because he was not a qualified attorney authorized and licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan, as required by Local Acts 1895, No 429.

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