
    SINGER v. LIVINGSTON CIRCUIT JUDGE. BAETCKE v. SAME.
    Bill of Exceptions — Settlement—Extension of Time.
    Under Circuit Court Rule No. 47, an ex parte order extending the time for settling a bill of exceptions, granted more than 80 days after entry of judgment, without cause shown by affidavit, is unauthorized. ®
    
      Mandamus by Anna Singer, and by Gustav J. Baetcke and another, respectively, to compel Stearns F. Smith, circuit judge of Livingston county, to vacate orders extending the time for settling bills of exceptions.
    Submitted June 7, 1898.
    Writs granted June 8, 1898.
    
      William P. Van Winkle and Judd Yelland, for relators.
    
      Dennis Shields and B. T. O. Clark, for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

In these cases, after the expiration of

more than 80 days from the entry of the judgments, the court entered ex j^arte orders extending the time to settle bills of exceptions. These orders were granted without any affidavits or notices of motions to the opposite side. The orders were without authority, under Cir. Ct. Rule No. 47, and Lake Shore, etc., R. Co. v. Branch Circuit Judge, 116 Mich. 399.

A writ of mandamus will issue in each case.  