Opinion of Strong on the Powers of County Judges

The material question raised in this case is, whether a county judge can execute at chambers the powers and duties of a justice of this court, which were conferred by statute passed previous to the adoption of the new constitution upon the judges of the then existing county courts of *93the degree of counsellor in the supreme court ? Provisions were made by the Revised Statutes (vol. 1st, p. 87, § 3, andp. 98, § 15,) for the appointment of “ supreme court commissioners ” in most of the counties in .this state. There was no definition of their powers in either of those sections. That was given in…