McNiel v. Borland
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Eleventh Judicial District, El Dorado County. Plaintiffs filed their petition, on the 18th day of January, 1862, in the County Court of El Dorado County, to foreclose a mechanic’s lien for work and labor performed in the construction of a building. The County Court dismissed the proceeding for want of jurisdiction and plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
The provision of our State Constitution, that County Courts shall have jurisdiction in special cases as the Legislature may prescribe, was copied from the Constitution of the State of New York. The Judges of the Court of Appeals of that State are about equally divided as to the proper meaning of the provision. One portion consider that it is the purpose of the Constitution to confer upon the Supreme Court, which corresponds to our District Court, general jurisdiction in all cases properly cognizable in Courts of Law and Equity, without specially designating them; and also to authorize the…
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