Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22
No. 214, A. Published May ., 1919

No. 214, Al Published May s, 1913.
CHAPTER ia, LAWS OF 1913.
AN AcT-To amend section ion 3, en- chapter rae
ton 3, chapter 81, laws OF 1897, reiat.
ing to the eastern municipal district Of
the county of Waukesha.
The people of the State OF Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section l. Section 8, chapter q, laws
of 1895, as amended by section g. chap
claws of 1895, chapter 23) Section 3.
The municipal court for the eastern n1u-
nicipal district of Waukesha county, shaIl
be q court of record, and have a clerk
cured under the direction of the judge
thereof, at the expense of the county OF
Waukesha. 1t has and may exercise
powers and jurisdiction concurrent ana
equal with the circuit court of WaukeSna
county in all cases of bastardy, crimes
and misdemeanors arising in said eastern
municipal district Of said county, ex-
cept murder. Said municipal court IN
as aforesaid, is vested with all the pow
ers and jurisdiction of justice or the
peace in the said eastern municipal dis
trict, in bastardy cases, criminal actlons
and proceedings, and jurisdiction of all
prosecutions for breach of any ordinance
of any city or village now Or which may
hereafter be Incorporated in SAID terri
tory; and also all the powers and jur1s-
county in civil cases and proceedings
arising within the said municipal district,
and also power to hear and determine any
such case although the title to land may
come in question therein. The general
provisions of law relative to civil. Grim
1nal and bastardy cases before justices
Of the peace shall apply to said court SO
far as applicable. Appeals from Judg-
ments rendered in said court In civil &C
lions shall be taken to the county court
of Waukesha county In the same manner
as appeals from judgments Of justices OF
the peace in similar actions. No justice
missioner within said eastern municipal
district, on or after the first Monday OF
May, A. D. 1895, except when called In
to sit as judge Of said court as herein
after provided, shall exercise any Jurls-
diction in cases of bastardy, crimes mis-
demeanors or breaches of any village or
city ordinance arising within the limits
of said county, and all such jurisdiction
ipal district is vested in said municipal
court; except that the police justice Of
any village now, or which may hereafter
be incorporated in said territory, or II
there be no police justice therein then
any justice of the peace of said village,
shall have concurrent jurisdiction with
said municipal court in all breaches OF
any ordinance or bylaw Of said village,
as to the arrest, trial and punishment Of
offenders shall govern so far as applica-
BILE in all such actions and proceedings
before said police justices or justices of
the peace Whenever any police justice
or Justice of the peace before whom any
such action or proceeding Is pending
shall be legally disqualified from any cause
to try the same, said action or proceeding
shall be sent for trial to any justice of
the peace of said village or to the said
municipal court. The said municipal
court has also jurisdiction of all cases
brought for breach Of any recognizance
given in said court; but no judgment in
any such action shall constitute a lien
upon real estate until a transcript there
of is duly docketed in the office Of the
clerk of the circuit court of said county,
in like manner as judgments of circuit
courts in civil cases are required to be
docketed; and when so docketed, shall
| have the same lien upon real estate in
| said county as judgments of the circuit
court so docketed have. The judgments
| of the municipal court in bastardy and
| criminal cases tried before 1T, may be eX-
| amined and reviewed by the supreme
| court in the same manner as judgments
| of the circuit court. To carry out It's Jur-
| isdiction the said municipal court shall
! have all the powers of circuit courts, and
| the municipal judge shall have the same
powers in all matters pertaining to the
| Jurisdiction of said municipal court as
| circuit judges.
| Section q This act shall take effect
| and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
| Approved May 8, 1918. Copy Law.
No. 274, Al Published May 5, 1913
CHAPTER 175, LAWS OF 1918.