Durham Provision Co. v. Daves

If the Legislature of 1925 thought it wise to confer certain civil jurisdiction on the recorders’ courts, already established and existing in the Tenth Judicial District, which hitherto had exercised limited jurisdiction in criminal matters only, as now advised, we see no valid reason why this could not have been done either by general or special act. There is nothing in Art. II, sec. 29 of the Constitution which prohibits the Legislature from increasing or decreasing the jurisdiction of recorders’ courts or county courts already in existende. The prohibition is against the establishment of…