Vaughan v. Veasey

Cabby, J.:

In arguing that the Act deprives defendant of the right to a jury trial, he construes the word “court”, as used therein, to be synonymous with “judge”. With this interpretation, I cannot agree. It is undoubtedly true that those words are sometimes used as synonyms in statutes and are frequently so treated by laymen and lawyers. On the other hand, the word “court” is just as appropriately used to describe a body or organ of the government organized to administer justice, and in this sense it includes both judge and jury. Black’s Law Dictionary, 3d ed. 457; 14 Am. Jur. 249. In any…