The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-07
courts. whether they exercise a crvn

courts. whether they exercise a cfvn
or a criminal jurisdiction.
ssThe court of chancery is composed
of the chancellor and seven vice chan
cellors. The entire court when con-
vened sits at Trenton. but the most OF
the business of the court is transacted
by the various vice chancellors sitting
in Camden, Trenton, Newark and Jer-
sey City, who try cases without juries.
'Under the proposed change the court
of errors and appeals, the supreme
court and the court of chancery Will
be abolished. In their places will be
simply one court, to be called the SUI
preme court. consisting Of twenty-one
judges. There will be no chancellor or
vice chancellors.
'sThe supreme court will be divided
into three divisions, to each OF wnlcn
seven judges will be assigned One
division will be called the appeals diyi-
sion, which will take the place OF the
present court of appeals; another divi-
sion will be the law division and an
other will be the chancery division.
"Any one Judge of the supreme court
NAV hold the supreme court or the
court of chancery in any county In this
state. bringing the court directly TO
the door of the litigant. Each judge
will exercise the power now exercised
by a Judge of the supreme court ana
by a vice chancellor.
.sThis is a most important and des1r-
able feature, because at present, IL II
he found that a suit which is Delng
tried in one of the law courts involves
and depends upon an equity question'
the law court, no matter how Tar the
trial of the cause has progressed be-
fore If or how much expense has Deen
incurred. must stop its trial and the
cause must be dismissed in the law
court and instituted in the equity court
that is the court of chancery-before
a vice chancellor.
"JJnder the proposed change TINS
cannot possibly happen, because, u
stead of having law court ana an
equity or chancery court and court
Of errors ard appeals, the supreme
court Judge, being not My sucn judge
but clothed with the powers Oh tne
nresent chancellor, may transfer the
cause TO the proper division OF the
court when it is discovered that by
mistake it had been brought before
him as law or supreme court judge.
"Any one desiring to appeal from
decision of the supreme court judge
sitting in a county, whether he be try
ing a law or an equity case, may nave
onIy one appeal, and that to the ap-
naals division. He will be put to one
exnense Of printing, to one argument
Of the appeal, and it will be argued
before Judges who have not sat OF
participated in the trial OF the cause
in the court below. This is decidedly
IN the interest of expedition and OF
economy.
"From the decision Of any county
iudge whether it be in a law case,
criminal case or an orphans court
case. there win be but one appeal, and
that directly to the appeals division
ssThe circuit courts will be abolished.
"I have endeavored to carefully but
briefly analyze the present and the
proposed system and do not see how
It is possible for any intelligent.
thoughtful person to conclude other
than that this proposed change is ex-
tremely desirable and in the interest
of unfortunate litigants with meritori-
ous causes. To my mind the people
of this state would make very great
mistake and do themselves incalcu-
liable injury by voting against the pro-
posed changes.
"In their interests and theirs alone
/ do most earnestly advise that they
listen to the voice Of reason and not
that of the demagogue and secure
judicial system simple in its formation.
quick in It's results-a system devised
solely in the interests Of litigants and
which, 1 firmly believe, will In coming
years be regarded as one of the very
best in existence"