Leonard v. Ekwall

The question for consideration is whether the affidavit of prejudice law applies to the judge of the department of probate. The 1919 Jurisdictional Act provided that in counties of 100,000 population or more an additional circuit judge should be elected to sit in a department to be designated by the rule of the Circuit Court by an appropriate number and that this department should be known as “department of probate” but that the judge of such a department shall in addition to the duties in the act prescribed also perform the general duties of a Circuit Court judge. Section 3 reads thus:

“That…