Walser v. Jordan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Actiow in tbe nature of a quo warranto to try the right to a public office, to-wit, the office of Clerk of the Western Criminal District Court for Buetcombe County, tried before Siarbuclc, at March Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Buncombe County, upon complaint and demurrer.
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Civil Actiow in tbe nature of a quo warranto to try the right to a public office, to-wit, the office of Clerk of the Western Criminal District Court for Buetcombe County, tried before Siarbuclc, at March Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Buncombe County, upon complaint and demurrer. The complaint in substance alleges that, under the Act of 1895, chapter 75, entitled “An Act to establish a Criminal Circuit Court to be composed of the counties of Buncombe, Madison, Haywood and Henderson,” the plaintiff, at the general election in November, 1896, was duly elected and qualified as Clerk of…
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, J.
The Legislature of 1895, chapter 75, established Criminal Courts in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties. These courts only had criminal jurisdiction. It was provided in that Act that these counties should compose a criminal circuit, and that there should be a judge elected, styled a Criminal Circuit Judge, who should preside over and hold these courts.
The Legislature of 1897 (Chapter 6) amended the Act of 1895 by giving these courts civil as well as criminal jurisdiction, and by changing the name to “Circuit” instead of “Criminal Circuit Courts.” And the same Legislature…
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