Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. 507. 81 Published June 3, 1909
CHAPTER %. LAWS OF 1909.

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CHAPTER %, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend sections 24S4, 24S5. 2494,
2495, 249S of the revised statutes of 1878,
as amended by chapter 216 of the laws
of 1880 and chapter 100 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 24S4a, PASTA, 2491a,
2495a. 249Ta and 249Sa of the statutes.
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 1878, as amended by section 1
Of chapter $50 of the laws of 1882 and
section 1 of chapter 12S of the laws of
1897 and chapter 100 of the laws of 1901,
is hereby amended to read: Section 24S4.
l. The municipal court of the city and
town of Ripon, heretofore established is
continued, and shall be a court of record
and have q 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 will come in
question which shall then be GER
titled TO said municipal court in 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
of Rtpon in law and equity, concurrent
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 set-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 iuris-
diction with said circuit court Of all GRIM
tnal offenSes 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
Rfpon of 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 iuris-
diction to institute and conduct examina-
lions in All criminal and bastardy cases
for OffenSeS committed within the civ and
town of Ripon and the exclusive mower
and jurisdiction to cause to come before
IL the persons so charged with commit
ting haStardy or criminal offenses within
said city and town of Ripon and commit
them to Jail on bind them over for trial
at the next term of said municipal courts
to the court which, under the law
0pfiOu
Ii any person accused Of any criminal of
Tense is SO bound over or committed for
trial before said municipal court and if
shall thereafter appear, by the filing of
the information, or otherwise that said
municipal court has not jurisdiction to try
the offense, then such proceedings shall
not abate, and the said municipal court
shall not lose jurisdiction of such person
or proceedings, but the judge thereof shall
certify the same to the circuit court of
Fond du Lac county. which court shall
thereupon have jurisdiction thereof to try
and determine the same
8 All fines and penalties dncIuding
COSTS collected in said municipal court.
except for the violation of the
ordinances of the city OF Ripon, shall he
paid to the treasurer Of Fond du Lac
Guiding COSTS for violation of II
the ordinances OF said city shall be paid
to the treasurer of the city of Ripon
1. Said municipal court shall be con-
tinuOusly open during each of its terms
and during at least one day in each week,
rs shall be designated by the Judge there.
of, at the opening of each term, shall be
regularly in session for the transaction of
business, ard when so in session. IL shall
continue from day to day until all untip
ished business ready for disposition shall
he disposed of: provided that vacation.
mot exceeding four weeks in succession
may be taken by the judge once in each
Year, and no adjournment from day to
slay shall be necessary to the validity Of
proceedings III SalQ court. hut nor
diem shall be paid TO any officer of said
court for any. day on which the court is
not actually in session, transactiDg busi
ness and requiring the presence of such
officer
3 Said court shall have the seal here
tofore procured therefor and IFS Judo
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 iuris.
diction 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 iust-
ice courts in criminal cases.
g. Motions and issues of law or fact
pending in said court in civil actions and
proceedings may be brought TO a hearing
1T any session-day of said court upon
eight days prior notice in the case of
motions, and ten days prior notice in the
~ sc of trials Of issues Joined. and ON
said session day the trial shall be taken
up in the order of the date of issue un-
less otherwise ordered or stipulated. II