101 Mich. 468 | Mich. | 1894
This is certiorari to a circuit court commissioner of Macomb county to review proceedings taken before him for a transfer of a cause pending in the Macomb circuit court to the circuit court for 'the county of Wayne for trial. It is not questioned that the showing for the transfer was sufficient to comply with the requirements of the general law relating to the transfer of causes in cases where the circuit judge is interested; but it is contended that, by Act No. 208, Laws of 1893, provision is made for the trial of causes in this circuit in case the judge is disqualified, and the transfer of causes to other
The statute provides that when causes are pénding in this circuit in which the judge shall be disqualified, “or whenever it may be necessary in order to expedite the business of such circuit, it shall be the duty of the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit to hold the term, or terms of court for the trial of such causes as the judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit may be disqualified or may be unable to try; ” .and section 3 of the act provides, in substance, that no cause shall be transferred or removed from said circuit on account of the disqualification of the judge thereof, unless it shall appear that the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit is also disqualified, or that he refuses or is unable to sit in the sixteenth circuit.
It is contended that the act is unconstitutional:
First. Because not introduced within the first 50 days of the session.
Second. Because not read three times.
Third. Because it has more than one object, and the title is double.
Fourth. Because the third section, prohibiting the transfer of causes, is not germane to the title.
Fifth. Because it attempts to impose upon certain judges duties which are not required of all circuit' judges.
Sixth. Because it attempts to prescribe a particular practice for' two circuits not in common -with or general to other judicial circuits.
“A bill to require the judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit to hold the terms of court of the thirty-first judicial circuit in certain cases, and also to require the 'judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit to hold the terms of the sixteenth judicial circuit when the resident judge may be disqualified from acting on the trial, or whenever the expedition of the business of either of said circuits may necessitate additional assistance.”
We think the first objection urged against this act should not prévail., This Court have repeatedly held that a substitute is not a new bill, and that such substitute may be offered after the lapse of the first 50 days of the session, if it is germane to the subject covered by the-first bill. The general purpose of the original bill was to provide for the holding of courts in the territory covered by the sixteenth and thirty-first judicial circuits. This is-plainly evident from the title. The substitute provided other means for the transaction of the business, but still related to the same subject-matter. See Pack v. Barton, 47 Mich. 520; Attorney General v. Amos, 60 Id. 372;. Attorney General v. Rice, 64 Id. 385; Hart v. McElroy, 72 Id. 446. Neither the case of Sackrider v. Board of Supervisors, 79 Mich. 59, nor Attorney General v. Plank Road Co., 97 Id. 589, is in conflict with the earlier decisions. In Sackrider v. Board of Supervisors the bill which was offered as a substitute related to a subject in no way germane to that covered by the original bill, which was true also of the case of Attorney General v. Plank Road Co.
We think the law is not in conflict with any constitutional provision, and should be held valid.
The- order of the circuit court commissioner will be reversed, with costs.