State Ex Rel. v. Link

This appeal involves the validity of a private act of 1937, designed to abolish the office of county judge in Stewart. county. By chapter 3, Private Acts of 1921, the office of county judge was created for Stewart county. In addition to the ordinary duties of chairman of the county court, the act, section 6, subd. 3, as amended by chapter 454, Private Acts of 1933, clothed the county judge with the authority and jurisdiction of a justice of the peace and with authority to grant writs of habeas corpus, injunctions, and attachments.

At the August election, 1934, the defendant, N. A. Link, was…