Stolp v. Scrimshaw

Peterson, Justice.

Applications have been duly made by appellants in these and other like cases for “leave to appeal” from decisions of district courts acting in an appellate capacity upon matters initiated and tried in county courts, all as provided by the County Court Act, L. 1971, c. 951, codified as Minn. St. c. 487.

*160The propriety of this court’s discretionary act in granting or denying these applications for leave to appeal, as provided in § 487.39,1 poses important constitutional issues concerning this court’s appellate powers and the legislature’s power to authorize judicial discretion…