Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

NO. cHA p 25} Go IzWs 5 OF ISL l'l
AN ACT to confer additional jurisdic-
ton on the county court Of Jackson
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section l. There is Hereby con-
ferred upon the county court Of Jack
son county, in addition to it's present
jurisdiction, jurisdiction as follows:
The county court of the county of
Jackson shall have cognizance of and
jurisdiction to hear try and determine,
all actions and proceedings at law
wherein the amount of debt damages,
penalty or forfeiture shall not exceed
the sum of five hundred dollars; actions
| to recover the possession of personal
property with damages for the unlaW-
full taking or detention thereof, Whe1 G.
sh~u not exceed the sum of five hun
dred dollars, and all charges for Of
lenses arising within said county, and
which are not punishable by commit
ment to the state prison; and the judge
of said county court shall have power
to sentence and commit all persons
| convicted Of any offense Of which said
court has jurisdiction. Said court shall
have power and jurisdiction through
out said county to cause to come before
it persons who are charged with any
criminal offense, and commit them to
Jail or bind them over to the circuit
court as the case may require. The
judge Of said court shah further have
all the jurisdiction, authority, powers
the peace and Shall be subject to the
same prohibition and penalties as JUS
tees of the peace. The judge Of said
court shall have the SO me fees as JUS
| that the county board of Jackson coun-
ty may, at the time prescribed by law
for fixing the amount of salaries for
county officers, fix Il salary for said
| county judge in lieu of all fees re-
ceived by him, and direct that all fees
received by him in any action in the
| said county court shall be paid into the
provided, further, if said county board
shall so elect, it may, at tho time and
| in the manner aforesaid, fix the salary
what, if any, fees received by him shall
be retained by him as compensation
in addition to his salary as so Axed by
| the county BOARD.
| Section 2. A judgment by confession
may be entered before the judge OF the
county court of the county of Jackson
in any sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars, without action. either for
money due or to come due or to secure
any person against contingent liability
on behalf of the defendant, or both,
signed by the defendant and verified
by MS oath to the following effect:
First. It must state the amount for
which judgment may be entered and
! therefor. Second. If it be money due
or to come due, it must state concisely
the fact out of which it arose and must
show that the sum confessed therefor
is justly due or to come due. Third.
If it be for the purpose Of securing the
plaintiff against contingent liability,
! it must state concisely the fact consti-
tuting the liability, and must show
that the sum confessed does not eX-
coed the sum.
Section 8. Whenever any action or
other proceeding shall be removed
| from any Justice of the peace Of said
county of Jackson upon the oath of
the defendant. his agent or attorney,
such removal, if said defendant, his
agent or attorney, shall request in
writing to said justice that the said
action or other proceeding be removed
to the said county court then the
action or other proceeding and all
papers therein, shall be transmitted to
the presiding judge thereof who shall
! proceed with the action or other pro-
! ceeding in the same manner as if orig
inally instituted before him.
law relative to civil and criminal
actions by justices Of the peace, shall
apply to the said court as far as appli-
cable, and all appeals, civil and crimi-
| nal, from said court, may be taken in
the same manner and with like effect
| Judgments of Justices of the peace.
Section 5. In all cases arising in
| said court under this act, or in which
said court shall obtain jurisdiction as
| may be had in the same manner and
Section 6. The sheriff and consta-
bles of Jackson county shall have the
| same power to serve and execute pro-
cesses of this court as of Justices