Cort Industries Corp. v. Swirl, Inc.

These cases are appeals from the Pickens County Civil and Criminal Court (hereinafter referred to as Pickens County Court). The merits of these cases were heard at the December, 1974, term of this Court. By order of this Court issued on January 6, 1975, we raised, ex mero motu, the question of our jurisdiction, if any, to hear a direct appeal from the Pickens County Court.

Act Number 1232, Acts and Joint Resolutions of 1972, created the Pickens County Court. Section 15 of that act provided that appeals would be to the circuit court. In 1973 the jurisdictional authority of the Pickens County…