Kundolf v. . Thalheimer

The constitution declares, that "the county court shall have such jurisdiction in cases arising in justices' courts, and in special cases, as the legislature may prescribe; but shall have no original civil jurisdiction, except in such special cases" (art. 6, § 14). In other words, the legislature may confer on county courts unlimited original civil jurisdiction in special cases. The action in this instance was for an assault and battery, which the plaintiff claims, and the supreme court has decided to be a special case within the meaning of the constitution. Whether this construction is…