Waldo v. Wallace

The city of Indianapolis is incorporated under the general law for the incorporation of cities, approved March 9, 1857. [Acts of 1857, p. 42.] At the municipal election in May of that year, Wallace was elected mayor for the term of two years.

The common council had not ordered the election of a city judge, as they were authorized to do by § 9 of that act. In the absence of such order and election, it is enacted by § 18, among other things, that “He [the mayor] shall hold a city Court every day, Sundays excepted, at, &c.; whilst sitting as such Court, he shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all…