In Re Steen

Ethridge, J.,

delivered the dissenting opinion.

I take it that there is no .question about the power of the Constitutional Convention to partition the judicial power of the state aniong- the various courts which it deems necessary to create, and give to each court such jurisdiction as it sees proper, and to limit the jurisdiction of any court to a particular subject or subjects, •on which the judicial power acts. By section 144 of the Constitution of 1890 the Constitutional Convention vested the entire judicial power of the state in the courts created by the Constitution. It provides: ‘ ‘ The…