International Bank v. . Bradley

The first position taken, on the part of the counsel for the defence, is, that the act establishing the Superior Court of the city of Buffalo is not constitutional. By the first section of that act (Laws of 1854, ch. 96), it is declared that "itsjurisdiction shall in all cases be presumed." It was necessary, therefore, for the defendant Woodruff, who alone interposed this defence, to prove the facts necessary to rebut the presumption. It is urged that the Recorder's Court, as it was constituted in 1839, was a local court; that its jurisdiction was confined to local actions arising in the…