MARQUETTE PRISON WARDEN v. MEADOWS

Docket No. 58153.

114 Mich. App. 121 (1982)

318 N.W.2d 627

MARQUETTE PRISON WARDEN v. MEADOWS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Keith D. Roberts, Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff.

Charles W. Meadows, III, in propria persona.

Before: BASHARA, P.J., and ALLEN and T.M. BURNS, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The primary issue in this case can be simply stated: May a lay person who is appointed a minor's next friend act as the minor's attorney in a judicial proceeding?

Facts relevant to this appeal are that Katherine Anderson filed a complaint for mandamus alleging that her civil rights were violated. Although she appeared in propria persona, her husband, who is an inmate of the Marquette State Penitentiary, provided assistance for her.

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