River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15

No 5O7. 81 published June 3, 1908.
CHAPTER %, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend sections 2484, 24S5, 2494,
2495, 249S Of the revised statutes Of 1878,
as amended by chapter 216 of the Laws
Of 1880 and chapter $50 of the laws of
1882 and chapter 12S OF the laws of 1897
and chapter 105 OF the laws Of 1901, and
creating new sections 96o PASTA, 24s7a, 2491a,
relating to the municipal court OF the
city and town Of Ripon.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section L. Section 24s4 of the revised
statutes OF 1873, as amended by section 1
section l OF chapter 129 OF the laws OF
1897 and chapter 105 OF the laws Of 1901,
is hereby amended to read Section 24S4.
j. The municipal court OF the city and
town Of Ripon, heretofore esta blished, is
continued, and shall be court of record
and have clerk and seal, shall have
exclusive appellate Jurisdiction in all cases
OF appeal, civil and criminal, from just
ices courts In said city and town, and of
all cases commenced in such justices
courts when an answer shall be put In,
showing that title to lands viii come Ia
question which shall then be GER
titled to said municipal court I'm the man
ner provided by law for certifying such
cases to circuit courts 1t shall
also exercise powers and Jurisdiction in all
causes of action and special pro-
ceedings arising within the city and town
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with and equal to the Jurisdiction of the
circuit court Of Fond du Lac county,
where the value Of the property in con
troversy, or the amount of money claimed
or sought to be recovered, after deduct
Ing all payments and offs, shall not
exceed fifty thousand dollars; and also
OF actions for the foreclosure of
mortgages In which the amount claimed
does not exceed the amount aforesaid, al
though the value of the property to be
affected by the judgment exceeds that
sum. 1t shall also have concurrent jurIs-
diction with said circuit court Of all Grim
inal ofenses committed within the city or
town OF Ripon other than those punish
able by Imprisonment in the state prison
2. Said municipal court shall also have
exclusive jurisdiction to hear, try and
determine all criminal actions for offenses
committed within the city and town of
Ripon' or which justices of the peace in
said county Of Fond du Lac would other
wise have jurisdiction to hear, try, and
determine; shall also have exclusive juris-
dtctiOn to institute and conduct examina-
lions I'm all criminal and bastardy cases
for oTenses committed within the city and
town OF Rlpon and the exclusive power
and Jurisdiction to cause to come before
IL the persons so charged with commit
ting bastardy or criminal offenses within
said city and town Of Ripon and commit
them to jail or bind them over for trial
az the next term OF said municipal courts
or to the court which, under the law,
shall have Jurisdiction to try said action
II any person accused of any criminal Of
tense is so bound over or committed for
trial before said municipal court and it
snail thereafter appear, by the fling OF
the Information, or otherwise, that said
municipal court has not Jurisdiction to try
the ofense, then such proceedings shall
not abate and the said municipal court
shall not lose Jurisdiction OF such person
certify the same to the circuit court Of
Fond du Lac county, which court shall
thereupon have Jurisdiction thereof 30 try
and determine the sama
nd
costs) collected in said municipal court
except for the violation OF the
ordinances. OF the city OF Ripon, shall be
paid TO the treasurer OF Fond du Lao
county and all fines and penalties (tu-
GLIDING costs) for violation OF .
the ordinances OF said city shall be paid
TO the treasurer Of the city OF Ripon
L. Said municipal court shall be con-
tinuouSly open during each OF its terms
aud during at least one day in each week
as shall be designated by the Judge there
regularly IN session for the transaction of
business, and when so In session, It shall
continue from day to day until all unin-
ished business ready for disposition shall
be disposed Of; provided that a vacation,
not exceeding four weeks in succession,
may be taken by the judge once in each
year and no adjournment from day to
day shall be necessary TO the validity OF
any proceedings In said court; but no per
diem shall be paid to any officer Of said
court for any day on which the court is
not actually in session, transacting bust
ness and requiring the presence OF such
officer
3 Said court shall have the seal here
tofore procured therefor, and its judg-
ments and orders may be reviewed by the
supreme court in the. same manner that
Judgments and orders Of the circuit court
may be; except that criminal actions
WITHIN the Jurisdiction of Justices turis-
olction under general law when tried by the
said municipal court otherwise than on
appeal shall be appealed to the circuit
court OF Fond du Lac county in the same
manner that appeals are taken from just
Ice courts IN criminal cases
o. Motions and issues Of law or fact
penolng IN said court In civil actions and
proceedings may be brought to a hearing
at any session-day OF said court upon
eight days prior notice In the case OF
motions, and ten days prior notice in, the
case or trials Of issues Joined, and on
said session day the trial shall be taken
up In the order Of the date OF issue, IN
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