Legal Opinion · Dissent
Donaghy v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided February 28, 1917Published
Certiorari to the Court of General Sessions, New Castle County. y
1Dissent
Boyce, J.,
dissenting:—“The Municipal Court for the City of Wilmington’ ’ was created and its j urisdiction limited and defined by an act of the General Assembly, passed April 13, A. D. 1883, being Chapter 207, Vol. 17, Laws of Delaware, under authority of Section 15, Article 6, of the Constitution of 1831, providing for the establishment of “inferior courts.” Wilmington v. Vandegrift, 1 Marvel, 13, 29 Atl. 1047, 25 L. R. A. 538, 65 Am. St. Rep. 256.
The said Municipal Court exists under said act, affected only in matters of jurisdiction by Section 30, Article 4, of the Constitution of 1897,…
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