Morse, Williams & Co. v. Baake

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

The judgment brought up was one entered in the Circuit Court of Atlantic county, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in a trial had before Allen B. Endicott, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of that county, holding the Circuit Court. At the time of the allowance of the writ the question of the constitutionality of the statute permitting, in certain cases, the holding of a Circuit Court by the judge of the Common Pleas was still unsettled, and doubtless the ground of allowance was that, if such statute should be held unconstitutional, any…