Johnson v. Higgins
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 26 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT. cited ls£ section act of 24th May, 1861; 2 Met., 221; 3 Ohio, 475; 6 lb., 179; Constitution Ky., sec. 1, art. 2; lb., sections 16, 17, art. 4; lb., sec. 16, art. 13; 1 Bibb, 567 ; 2 lb., 202 ; 4 Litt. 60. cited section 1 of act approved 24th May, 1861. cited 4 Littell, 35; lb., 47; 5 Mon., 98; 7 Mon , 11; lb.', 50 ; lb., 588; 1 J. J. Marsh., 284 ; 7 B. Mon., 168 ; 13 B. Mon., 285; 12 Wheaton, 213 ; and the…
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CASE 26 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT. cited ls£ section act of 24th May, 1861; 2 Met., 221; 3 Ohio, 475; 6 lb., 179; Constitution Ky., sec. 1, art. 2; lb., sections 16, 17, art. 4; lb., sec. 16, art. 13; 1 Bibb, 567 ; 2 lb., 202 ; 4 Litt. 60. cited section 1 of act approved 24th May, 1861. cited 4 Littell, 35; lb., 47; 5 Mon., 98; 7 Mon , 11; lb.', 50 ; lb., 588; 1 J. J. Marsh., 284 ; 7 B. Mon., 168 ; 13 B. Mon., 285; 12 Wheaton, 213 ; and the various sections of the State and Federal constitutions touching the questions involved.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stites
On the 24th May, 1861, the general assembly passed an act entitled, “an act to suspend the circuit and other courts in this commonwealth, and for other purposes,” which provided that it should take eifect from its passage. The first section of the act reads as follows :
“Section 1. That all'laws requiring circuit courts, equity and criminal courts, quarterly courts, justices courts, and all police, *568town, and city courts, except for the trial of criminal and penal causes, in this commonwealth, be and they are hereby repealed until the first day of January, 1862: Provided, That after the…
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