The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
] published June 3, 1909.
lER 23, LAWS OF 1909

No. 5O7. ST published June 3. 1909
CHAPTER IS, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend sections 24S4, 24S5 2494
2495, 249S Of the revised statutes of 1873,
as amended by chapter ZIG OF the laws
OF 1880 and chapter $50 OF the laws of
1882 and chapter 128 of the laws OF 1897
and chapter 10J OF the laws of 1901, and
creating new sections 2484a, PASTA. 2491a,
2495a, 249Ia 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 1. Section 24S4 OF the revised
statutes OF 1878, as amended by section /
Of chapter $50 OF the laws of 1882 and
section ! Of chapter 12S of the laws of
1897 and chapter 105 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 clerk and seal, shall have
exclusive appellate jurisdiction in all cases
or 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 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 R1pon 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 i'm 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
goes 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
maj onenSeS committed within the city or
town OF Ripon other than those punish
able by Imprisonment in the state prison
= 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 Of which justices Of the neace i'm
said county Of Fond du Lac would other
wise nave Jurisdiction to hear, try, and
ueCermlne; shall also have exclusive iuriS-
diction to Institute and conduct exainina-
mons IN all criminal and bastardy cases
Tor oHenses committed within the city and
town of Ripon and the exclusive power
ana jurisdiction to cause to come before
III the persons So charged with commit
ing oaStardy or criminal offenses within
SAID city and town Of Ripon and commit
them to Jail or bind them over for trial
ut the next term of said municipal courts
or 70 the COURT which, under the law
Snall have jurisdiction to try said action.
II any person accused Of any criminal of
IenSe is So bound over or committed for
trial before said municipal court and it
shall thereafter appear, by the fling OF
tue mIormaton, or otherwise, that said
municipal court has not jurisdiction to try
the 0ffense, then such proceedings shall
uot abate and the said municipal court
SAah not Lose jurisdiction OF such person
or proceedings, but the judge thereof shall
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roma du Lac county, which court shall
thereupon have jurisdiction thereof to try
and determine the same
), All fines and penalties (including
COSTS collected in said municipal court,
except for the violation OF ~ the
ordinances of the city OF Ripon, shall be
pald TO the treasurer of Fond du Lac
county and all fines and penalties lin
Guiding coSts) for violation of .
the ordinances of said city shall be paid
ito the treasurer of the city of Ripon.
4 salu municipal court shall be con-
(finuolslY open during each of its terms
elnd during at least one day in each week
us shall be designated by the Judge there
of. at the opening of each term shall he
regularly in session for the transaction of
business, ard when so in session. it shall
continue from day to day until all unfn-
shed 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 i'm each
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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
:, Said court shall have the seal here
tofore procured therefor and its iudg-
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
N1thln the jurisdiction of justices iuris-
ncLion 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
! pending in said court in civil actions and
proceedings may be brought to Il hearing
iat any, session-day Of said court upon
%Hlght days prior notice in the case of
motions, and ten days prior notice in the
alse Of trials Of issues joined, and on
said session-da the trial shall be taken
m IN the order Of the date Of issue IN
/ lesa otherwise ordered or stipulated If