Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08

victed of any offense of which said court
| has jurisdiction.
Said court shall have power and juris-
diction throughout said county to cause to
come before 1t persons who are charged
! with any criminal offense and commit them
| to Jail or bind them over to the circuit
| court as the case may require. The judge
| of said court shall further have all the
! jurisdiction, authority, powers and right
! given by law TO justices of the peace and
| shall be subject to the same prohibitions
| and penalties as justices of the peace. The
| judge of said court shall have the same fees
| as justices of the peace.
2. A judgment by confession may be en-
| tered before the judge of the county court
| OF the county of Florence In any sum not
| exceeding five hundred dollars, without ac-
ton, either for money due or to come
! due or to secure any person against con-
| tingent liability on behalf of the defendant,
| or both, if a statement in writing be made
| signed by the defendant and verified by his
oath to the following effect:
First. 1t must state the amount for
! which judgment may be entered and au-
| thorize the entry of Judgment therefor.
| Second. If 1t be money due or to come
| of which 1t arose and must show that the
sum confessed therefor is justly due or to
| come due
| curing the plaintiff against contingent
| liability, it must state concisely the fact
| constituting the liability and must show
| LndL luC sun COu1G0SS0 0OS5 hOL %ASSCO
3. Whenever any action, examination or
| other proceeding shall be removed from
any justice of the peace of said county of
Florence upon the oath of the defendant,
his agent or attorney, according to the pro-
vision of law for such removal, if said de-
PENDANT, his agent or attorney, shall re-
quest in writing to said justice that the
action, examination or other proceeding be
removed to the said county court, then the
action, examination or other proceeding and
all therein. shall be transmitted TO
the presiding judge thereof who shall pro
coed with the action, examination or other
pTOceeding~in the same manner as II orig
inally instituted before him.
1. In all cases arising In said court IN
der this act or In which said court snail
obtain jurisdiction as In this act specihed,
trial by jury may be had in the same
manner and process as in Justice court:
5. The sheriff and constables OF Flor
ence county shall have the same power to
serve and execute processes OF this court
as of Justices court and shall be entitled
to receive the same fees.
6. The summons In all actions may pc
In the following form:
Florence County, Go
Town Of Florence. { S0'
The State of Wisconsin to the sheriff or
any constable of said county:
You are hereby commanded to summon
A. 3. If he shall be found within your
county, to appear before the undersigned,
the county judge of said county, at the
county court room, in said court house
in the town of Florence, county aforesaid,
9 noon 5nG to- answer cray TO {. D. paintG to his
damage, five hundred dollars, or under.
Hereof fail not at your peril.
Given under my hand at Florence, Flor
ence county, Wisconsin, this. 900. day of
...... "A. D.......
County Judge.
and all other writs, warrants and pro
cesses necessary to be issued In this act
shall be in the form prescribed by law
courts, but under the name OF the county
judge of said Florence county: and all pro-
cesses issued by said county Judge under
the provisions of this act shall be made
returnable within the same time as like pro-
cesses Issued by justices of the peace un-
der existing laws and shall be served with
in the same time and in the same manner
as like processes of Justices of the peace
are required TO be served under existing
laws.
T. In all civil actions under this act In
the county court in the county of Florence,
the plaintiff, If he shall obtain judgment,
shall be entitled to recover attorneys fees
as follows: On all judgments taken in &C
pear or demur when the amount OF the
judgment exceeds one hundred dollars and
is less than three hundred dollars, ten dol
lars. When the amount OF the judgment
is three hundred dollars aud upwards, If
teen dollars. On all other judgments when
the amount does not exceed one hundred
dollars, an amount equal to ten per centum
of the amount of the Judgment. When the
amount of the judgment exceeds the sum or
one hundred dollars, ten QOIlafS, on the
first one hundred dollars and five per
centum Oh the amount of the Judgment In
excess of one hundred dollars, provided
that in no case shall the amount Of the
attorney fee exceed the sum Of twenty dol
lars. And in case judgment shall be for
the defendant, he shall be entitled to re-
cover attorney fees as follows In cases
where the plaintiff shall claim In his COM
plant one hundred dollars or less, an
assessment equal to ten per centum Of such
claim. In all cases where the plaintiff shall
Lot I'm h iS a n n n
hundred dollars, ten dollars for the first one
hundred dollars, and five per centum on
the amount claimed in excess Of one hun
dred dollars provided that In no case shall
the amount Of attorney fees exceed the sum
of twenty dollars.
The provisions of this section shall ap-
ply to proceedings for the recovery Of pos
session Of personal property and the value
of the property as found If judgment be
for the plaintiff, and as claimed, If judg-
ment be for the defendant, shall be the
basis for the taxation of attorney fees and
in all other civil actions not herein pro
vided for, an attorney fee OF ten dollar
shall be allowed to the party in whose
favor judgment is rendered, provided, how
ever. that no attorney fee shall be allowed
unless the party who RECEIVERS the Judg-
ment shall appear by an attorney or
court Of record.
s. It shall be lawful for said judge to
call IN a sten0grapher to take testimony In
any trial. examination or proceeding be-
fore him, under this act, which stem
Ographer shall receive ten cents per folio
for taking and transcribing said testimony.
The fees above specified shall, In all civil
cases, be taxed as costs against the losing
party. In criminal cases they shall be re-
turned to the county as part OF the costs
in the case. A transcribed copy of the
notes SO taken, shall be filed in lieu Of the
minutes required by law to be taken by
justices of the peace In like proceedings.
8. Appeals from said county court shall
be made to the circuit court of Florence
county and the manner and form and time
of taking such appeal shall be IN the man
ner and form and time of taking such ap-
peal from justice court.
10. All needful stationery and blanks
required by said court in criminal actions
and examinations and the judges docket re-
quired by law to be kept in such actions,
shall be furnished at the expense of Flor
ence county.
II. The provisions of section 1900 of the
statutes of 1898, shall apply to the filing of
all transcripts of judgments in this court
with the clerk of the circuit court SO far as
the same are applicable thereto.
| Section 2. All acts and parts of acts In
| conflict with the provisions Of this act are
| hereby repealed
Section ). Ihis act shall take effect and
be Ia force from and after It's passage and
Approved June &c, 1907.
No. 2O6 81 Published June 81, 1907.
CHAPTER 425, LAWS OF 1907.
! AN ACT to create section 5241 of the stat
utes authorizing the state superlntend-
| ent Of public instruction TO procure ar