In re Greer

At the legislative session this year, an act was passed entitled: “An act creating two city courts in Kansas City Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas, and defining the jurisdiction thereof, and the powers and duties of the officers thereof, and limiting the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in said township.” Ch. 107, Laws 1897, page 207. The second section of this act reads as follows :

“The courts hereby established shall have the same jurisdiction, civil and criminal, as justices of the peace now have in this State ; and for the purposes of the jurisdiction hereby conferred, and of…