Burgoyne v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of the City of San Francisco. This was an action brought to recover the amount due on certain warrants, drawn by the County Auditor on the Treasurer of the County of San Francisco, which warrants were issued by an order of the Court of Sessions of that county, to pay for a lot purchased by order of the Court of Sessions of said county, in the year 1850. On or about the 20th day of June, 1850, the Court of Sessions of San Francisco County,…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of the City of San Francisco. This was an action brought to recover the amount due on certain warrants, drawn by the County Auditor on the Treasurer of the County of San Francisco, which warrants were issued by an order of the Court of Sessions of that county, to pay for a lot purchased by order of the Court of Sessions of said county, in the year 1850. On or about the 20th day of June, 1850, the Court of Sessions of San Francisco County, sitting for the transaction of county business, entered into a contract with Edmund Laffan, Daniel W. Coit, and Charles A.…
1Opinion of the CourtMurray, C. J.
Heydenfeldt, J., concurred.
Several questions were raised in the argument of this case, only one of which it is deemed necessary to examine, viz: The power of the Legislature to confer other than judicial functions upon the Courts of Sessions.
The eighth section of the sixth Article of the Constitution of this State, title, “Judicial Department,” provides as follows: “ The County Judge, with two Justices of the Peace, to be designated according to law, shall hold Courts of Sessions, with such criminal jurisdiction as the Legislature shall prescribe, and he shall perform such other duties as…
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