State ex rel. Bunce v. Kubat

Begley, District Judge.

Action in mandamus to compel the county commissioners of Douglas county to approve a hold-over bond of relator as justice of the peace. Relator was the duly elected and qualified justice of the peace of district No. 16, Douglas county, Nebraska, for the term of two years ending on January 4, 1923. In 1921 a statute was enacted providing that, in each justice of the peace district in which there was located a city of the metropolitan class, ‘“'municipal courts, as heretofore or hereafter established, are hereby substituted by law for the justice of the peace within such…