A. B. Paul & Co. v. Beegan
Nevada Supreme Court
MANDAMUS. Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Nevada, Storey County, Hon. Richard RisiNG presiding.
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MANDAMUS. Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, State of Nevada, Storey County, Hon. Richard RisiNG presiding. On the 24th day of December, A. D. 1864, one W. N. Hall .was acting Justice of the Peace for Gold Hill Precinct, duly qualified, etc., and on that day one Thomas Jones commenced a suit against the Michigan Mill and Mining Company, a corporate body, upon a promissory note of two hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-eight cents, principal, and one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents, interest; and on the 27th day of December, 1864, recovered…
1Concurrence
Opinion by
Lewis, C. J.,
full Bench concurring.
Courts of Justices of the Peace being the mere creature of statute have no jmisdietion, except that which is expressly granted by law. The laws of the Territory of Nevada limited the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in cifil cases, for the recovery of money, to demands not éxceeding one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest. But it is claimed that the State Constitution extended that jurisdiction to three hundred dollars. The Constitution provides that “ the judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Supreme Court, District Courts, and…
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