Over A Hundred Exemptfrom Jury Duty

As ('nmpany A lias over a h'undred lonorary members in this city, a reent Supreme Court decisión will prove í Interest here. It is told in a LansiiiK dispatch to the Detroit Tribune i; íoHows: An opinión of interest to the largo number oí eitizens of Michigan who are homornry members of the various compaiiies of state troops was lianded down in the Supreme Court to-day in the case of Slierwood Hall, who was held in contempt by Judga BuvUngam ■, of the Superior Court of Grand Kapds for rtfushig to serve as a juror on the ground that as an honorary uentber of a compaaiy of state troops ie wa.s cxenipt from jui-y services under th provisions of Act No. 511 of the nibïïiG aiste of 1861. .Tudge BurUnfame held the law to be unconstitulonal, and wlien the case was argued 'a the Supreme Court last week the oiistitutionality of the statute was 'igorously attacked. Tht: law üx question provides that not more tlum 150 contr'ibuting memKi-i, may be emrolled in each company Ld battery of state troops. Each i ueh coutributimg members shaM pay nto the treasury annually ülO, and upon the payment of Buch animal dues such member shall receive a au-, and shall be exempt f rom jury iaty and poOfl-tax in the same manner as acting members oL the state troops in' n„iv exempt. Af ter holding tlial th.' provisions of th eact are fully covn-d by its title, Mr. Justice Crant. who wrote the opinión, proceeds to consklcr the poínts raised agáinsi it. !!, declares ir is not class legislation unl m class ol citdzenB are barred Irom ts privileges. II aids and tosters oiïltary orgoaizations, whieh i a wtól-deflaed poHéy ol the Btate. It is not agaiast pufilic poU-y so long as the right of trial by jury is mainiamed. contempt proceedingiS are therefore' ordered quaslu-d and the lietend:m: di?chai-géd.