Case ID: wend_18/html/0341-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People, ex rel. Newell and others, vs. Montgomery Common Pleas.
    An appeal cannot be allowed by the first judge of a county when absent from the county for which he was appointed.
   Motion for mandamus. The common pleas of Montgomery quashed an appeal from a justice’s judgment on the ground that the appeal was allowed by the first judge of the county, when absent from the county, to wit, in Albany. The relator asked for a mandamus to vacate the rule quashing the appeal. The court denied the mandamus, saying the judge had no jurisdiction to allow the appeal; it was a judicial act which could properly be performed only in the county for which he was appointed.