Brown v. Atkin

The case was mandamus, and the writ was issued, and the hearing and proceedings were had before the Judge of the Third District Court in vacation, in pursuance of the 592nd Section of the Practice Act. It is assigned for error that there was no jurisdiction in the Judge at Chambers, for the reason that it was not competent for the Legislature to confer this jurisdiction upon the Judge in vacation, fend that the Section referred .to is in violation of Sec. 9 of the Organic Act. I do not think there is any plain incompatibility' between the two. A similar *278Act has been sustained by the Supreme…