State ex rel. Wedge v. Olson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Application by A. Gr. Wedge and others, relators, to this court for a writ of prohibition to Eric Olson, a Justice of the Peace elected and holding his office in the town of New Canada in Ramsey County to restrain him from exercising jurisdiction over and trying certain persons charged before him with having committed an assault and battery within the city of St. Paul.
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
Respondent is a justice of the peace in the town •of New Canada, Ramsey county, and on complaint duly made issued his warrant for the arrest of certain persons charged with an assault and battery committed in the city of St. Paul, and, they being-arrested, was proceeding to try them when the wi*it of prohibition was sued out. The ground on which it was applied for is that a justice of the peace in one of the towns has no jurisdiction of any offense committed within the limits of the city, but that the jurisdiction of offenses ordinarily cognizable before a justice of the peace is, where they…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Babcock v. MurraySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- Hoffman v. ParsonsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
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- Babcock v. MurraySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894