128 Mich. 606 | Mich. | 1901
This hearing is brought on a writ of certiorari issued out of this court to review the action of Emmet L. Beach, a circuit judge of Saginaw county, in issuing a mandamus compelling the petitioner here, Washburn Horning, county treasurer of Saginaw county, to pay Kalma Friedman, the relator in the circuit court, the sum of $33.24 for services and mileage while acting as a member of the board of supervisors at the June session of said board. Mr. Friedman was duly appointed a member of the board of assessment and review of the city of Saginaw in 1899, and by virtue of that office was a member of the board of supervisors of .Saginaw county,
Counsel for the respondent earnestly urge the court, in this proceeding, to pass upon the question of the title to the office in dispute, but we decline to do so. As the record disclosés the relator was a de facto officer, who rendered service upon the board of supervisors, for which service his claim for compensation was allowed by the board of supervisors, and an order was given him upon the county treasurer, we think it was the duty of that officer to pay the order. In reaching this conclusion we are not unmindful of the cases cited by counsel of Board of Education of Detroit v. Common Council of Detroit, 80 Mich. 548 (45 N. W. 585); Board of Supers of Cheboygan Co. v. Township of Mentor, 94 Mich. 386 (54 N. W. 169); and Van Akin v. Dunn, 117 Mich. 421