The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-10-15
FRIDAY, OCT. Is, 1909.

Carolina, South Dakota, Utan, YER
mont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyom-
ing.
At the present time in Colorado and
Kansas there is but one appellate
court, known as the Supreme Court;
but in times past in both of these
states there have been intermediate
courts known as the Courts of APP
peals.
In certain other states, where the
court of last resort is designated the
Supreme Court" there are also in
termediate appellate courts, designat-
ed generally as Courts of Appeals"
This is true of Indiana and Illinois,
where the intermediate court is known
as the Appellate Court"
In Georgia there is a supreme
Court" and also an intermediate
"Court of Appeals" In California
there is Supreme Court and three
District Courts of Appeal. In Okla
homa there is Supreme Court and
a criminal Court OF Appeals" The
constitution of Oklahoma will be held
accountable for many things, not the
least of which is the creation of a
Criminal Court of Appeals"
In Texas we have a supreme
Court an intermediate Court OF
Criminal Appeals" and six Courts of
Civil Appeals. In Missouri below the
Supreme Court, there are three courts
of appeal, designated Court of APP
peals at St. Louis" Court of Appeals
at Kansas City," and Court of APP
peals at Springfield" and in Tennes-
see Supreme Court and lower
court termed Court of Civil Appeals"
In some of the states, most of which
are the older eastern states, the court
of last resort, while popularity known
as the Supreme Court, is officially des-
ignated with more elaborate title;
for example, in Connecticut we have
the Supreme Court of Errors in
Massachusetts and Maine the "Su-
preme Judicial Court" and in Virginia
we have the Supreme Court OF Ap-
peals."
Then there is another group OF
states, a small and select one, where
the court of last resort is designated,
"Court of Appeals" In this class we
find Kentucky, Maryland and New
York.
The organization and designation OF
the courts in New York deserve es-
pecial consideration. In addition to
the court of last resort, which is the
Court of Appeals" there is the SUI
preme Court, consisting of 95 mem
bers. Trial and special terms OF this
court are held in every county OF the
state The special term, by the way,
is not a term specially held, but des-
ignates regular terms held for trial
of cases which do not require jury
and for hearing of demurrers and
other issues purely legal. The state
is also divided into four grand divl-
sions. known as Departments" and
in each of these Departments there
is an Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court, known as the supreme
Court, Appellate Division, First De-
partment," or otherwise, as the case
may be.
Appeal may be taken from the Trial
or Special Term to the Appellate Dl-
vision, and from the Appellate Divl-
sion to the Court of Appeals. In
New York City, or in the First De
partment, to be more exact, appeals
NAV be taken from the Municipal
Courts to a branch of the Supreme
Court known as the Supreme Court,
Appellate Term,'' and from the Appel
late Term appeals may be taken sue
cessively to the appellate Division"
and the Court of Appeals"
It would seem that the designations
above listed would have exhausted all
of the possible combinations but this
is not entirely true, for, in addition
to all of these we have the court OF
last resort of New Jersey, known as
the Court of Errors and Appeals,
with an intermediate supreme
Court"
I'M THF SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington, for hlng
Sountv T., H. Craver Plaintiff, VS..
sam Custer. and all persons unknown
if any, having or claiming an inter
est and and to the hereinafter Ne-
scribed real property Defendants. NO