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

No. 631, Al Published June II, 1911.
CHAPTER 81, LAWS OF 1911.
AN ACT to confer civil and concurrent
jurisdiction on the county court of
RuSk county
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. The county court of Rusk
county, in addition to the power and
jurisdiction conferred by law on county
courts, shall have cogniZance of and
jurisdiction to hear, try and determine
all actions and proceedings that just
ices of the peace have jurisdiction over
and cognizance Of under section 1872
of the statutes wherein the amount Of
debt, damages, demand, forfeiture or
value of property involved shall not eX
coed the sum of five hundred dollars.
such concurrent criminal Jurisdiction
as is conferred by section 4739 Of the
statutes on justices of the peace.
Section 2. The proceedings and pract-
ices in the said county court under this
act shall be governed, as far as practi-
cal, by the laws relating to courts of
justices of the peace. The summons
warrants, Writs and other processes
necessary to be issued under this act
shall be in the form prescribed by the
law for justices of the peace, but shall
be under the name of the county Judge
of Rusk county. All processes issued
under the provisions of this act shall be
made returnable within the same time
as like processes issued by justices of
LiIe peace, anu Slid1l Nc ScINGu W lIIllu
the same time and in the same manner
as like processes of justices of the
peace are required to be served under
existing law.
Section 8. The provisions of law
applicable to justices of the peace re-
speeding the requirements as to keep
ing a docket therein shall apply to &C
tions instituted and prosecuted under
the provisions of this act, but failure
to docket any case or proceeding thus
begun prior to the time when the same
shall be tried or heard, or failure to
enter in the docket the time and place
to which any adjournment shall have
been taken, shall not deprive the said
county court of jurisdiction to try and
determine the action or proceeding.
| Trial by jury may be had in the same
manner as in courts of justices of the
peace and the jury shall consist OF six
men. In all actions or proceedings in
the county court under this ACT the
county judge shall be allowed and shall
collect from the proper parties the same
fees as are now allowed by law to just
ices of the peace for like services. Pro-
Vided, that the county board or said
county may, at any annual meeting
provide a salary for the county judge
in addition to said fees, and may, BY
resolution, require the payment of all
such fees into the county treasury, and
provide salary in lieu thereof.
Section l. The county judge shall
also tax as costs in favor of the party
recovering judgment the items of costs
properly taxable in courts OF justices
OF the peace, on all Judgments lOr TWO
hundred dollars or less; for all juda
ments for more than two hundred dol
lars and less than three hundred dol
lars, an attorneys fee Of fifteen dol
lars; for all judgments over three
hundred dollars, an attorneys fee Of
| twenty-five dollars. In case judgment
shall be for the defendant he shall re-
ceive the same attorneys fees. and the
amount claimed by the plaintiff shall
be the basis for computing he saLlc.
In actions Of replevin, the value of the
amount of attorneys fees in case judg-
ment is for the plaintiff, and the value
of the property as claimed shall govern
the amount of the attorneys fees. in
In case not herein provided for, rea-
sonable attorneys fee may be allowed
In the discretion Of the court, provided,
that no attorneys fee shall exceed the
ed, further, that no attorneys fee shall
| be allowed unless the parties shall ap
pear in the action by an attorney of
Section 5. Any party may appeal
from any Judgment or order entered by
the county court to the circuit court for
RuSk county within the time limited
and within the manner prescribed for
taking appeals from justice courts, and
the trial shall be had in the circuit
court in the same manner as if the ap
peal had been taken from a court Of
Justice of the peace.
Section g. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pass
age and publication, provided, however,
that none of the additional powers
herein granted to the said county court
of Rusk county shall be exercised by
said court and none of the provisions
hereof shall be effective and operative,
unless the county board of Rusll county
shall before January first, 1912, by re-
solution adopted by a majority of the
members thereof, SO declare and direct.
Section T. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
passage and publication.
Approved June Is, 1911. Copy Law.
No. TAB, Al [P.;blished June IT, 1911.
CHAPTER 372, LAWS OF 1911.
AN ACT to amend section 3771 of the