Hipp v. Charlevoix Sup'rs
| Decision Date | 15 July 1886 |
| Citation | 29 N.W. 77,62 Mich. 456 |
| Parties | HIPP v. CHARLEVOIX SUP'RS. |
| Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
Certiorari.
Stone & Hyde, C.D. Cruickshank, and James A. Keat, for plaintiff.
Taggart, Wolcott & Ganson, R.L. Corbitt, and Wm. A. Norton, for defendant.
As the record in this case presents no points not already settled by the previous decisions of this court, we declined to allow them to be opened. The questions are not such as the courts have any right to disturb after they have been disposed of by the only authority which the law has empowered to act upon them. The supervisors, at a meeting when all the towns were represented, by a two-thirds vote, ordered an election to determine upon the proposed removal of the county-seat. This election was held, and the board determined the result upon a canvass. That action is conclusive, and no authority exists anywhere to dispute it. The controversy, which is not in any proper sense a judicial one, is closed. The constitution has not empowered this court to settle controversies not judicial, which are very wisely left to the proper local and representative agencies of the people. The return shows that nothing has been done which is within our supervisory power, and the writ must be quashed.
(The other justices concurred.)
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