Welch v. State ex rel. Johnson

This writ of error was taken to peremptory writ of mandamus issued by the Circuit Judge commanding the County Judge to reinstate on the docket of the County Judge’s Court and try “an action for forcible entry and unlawful detainer” which had been dismissed by the County Judge.

The Constitution provides that “the county judge shall have original jurisdiction * of proceedings relating to forcible' entry or unlawful detainer of lands and tenements,” and that “the circuit courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in * all cases at law, not cognizable by inferior courts, and * of the action…