Flint River Steam Boat Co. v. Roberts, Allen & Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to Franklin Circuit Court. The facts of the case precede the opinion delivered by the Chief Justice. contended: That the Judge who granted the order on which the judgment was entered, did not possess any right to exorcise jurisdiction as a Judge of the Circuit Court, in the county of Franklin, on the day on which he made the order. The Constitution has given power to the Legislature to pass laws requiring the Judges to alternate.
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Writ of Error to Franklin Circuit Court. The facts of the case precede the opinion delivered by the Chief Justice. contended: That the Judge who granted the order on which the judgment was entered, did not possess any right to exorcise jurisdiction as a Judge of the Circuit Court, in the county of Franklin, on the day on which he made the order. The Constitution has given power to the Legislature to pass laws requiring the Judges to alternate. The power so given has been exercised by the Legislature by act, which if adhered to compels them to preside in turn, in each and every Circuit of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, Chief Justice:
This case came up by writ of error from a judgment rendered by a Judge of the Circuit Court at Chambers at Apalachicola, in Franklin County, on the fifth day of June, A. D. 1847, under the peculiar provisions of the second section of an act of the General Assembly of this State, “approved January4th, 1847,” Thompson’s Digest, 414, which provides that “whenever any captain, pilot, engineer, first or second mate, fireman, deck hand, merchant, builder, material man, or any other person employed in, or for materials, goods, or supplies furnished any steamboat, lighter or…
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