Reed v. McCormick
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Seventh Judicial District. This cause originated in the final settlement in the Probate Court of Marin County, of the accounts of the defendant, McCormick, as administrator of John Reed, deceased, and guardian of his infant children.
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Appeal from the Seventh Judicial District. This cause originated in the final settlement in the Probate Court of Marin County, of the accounts of the defendant, McCormick, as administrator of John Reed, deceased, and guardian of his infant children. The Court decreed, that nothing had come into the hands of McCormick, as administrator, and that the funds which had come into his hands, belonged to the infants, and disallowed certain claims presented by McCormick, as administrator, a portion of which he had paid out of the funds in his hands. The defendants appealed to the District Court, which…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J. Heydeneeldt
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Mr. Ch. J. Murray concurred.
*343In Caulfield v. Hudson, at the last January term, we held that under-the constitutional distribution of judicial power, the District Court had no'appellate jurisdiction. We then, however, specially reserved the question as to the power of the District Court over the Probate Courts, and that question it now becomes necessary to decide. The 6th section of Article YI of the Constitutution declares: “The District Courts * shall have original jurisdiction in [343] law and equity in all civil cases, where the amount in…
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