The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-11
BILL DRAFTED FORAPPELLATE
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Several months ago at a meeting of the Bar Association of the Third Division the matter of an appellate court for the Territory was discussed at some length, and the matter was referred to a committee of the bar to draw up a measure to correqr as far as possible the evils of tn, pres ent system
 Under the existing laws an appeal from the district court of Alaska must be taken before the appellate court of the Ninth circuit, and must be heard either at San Francisco or Seattle, necessitating delay and un- necessary expense of litigants.
 To correct this Attorney J. L. Reed, of Valdez, member of the commit tee appointed by the Bar Associa- tion, drafted a bill, and forwarded it to Delegate Dan A. Sutherland with the result that the Delegate intro- duced the bill in the House of Repre- senatives as H. R. 119O5. The body of the bill is as follows:
 "A bill to provide fir the estab- lishment of the Supreme Court for the Territory of Alaska, imposing ad ditional duties on the distrivt judges. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress as sembled, that hereafter there shall consist of a chief justice and three associate justices, to be composed of the judges of the district court of the several judicial divisions of the Territory of Alaska, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum: Provided, That the judge who presid- ed at the trial of cause in the court below shall not sit at the hear ing of the same case on appeal, or writ of error in the supreme court of the leIFlCOIy.
 "Sec. 2-That section 1337 Chapter 51, of the Compiled Laws of Alaska. 1913, shall be amended to read as follows:
 Sec 1337-Tha& in all cases other than those in which a writ of errOr or appeal will lie direct to the SuA preme Court of the United States, as provided in Section 1886, in which the amount involved or the value of the subject matter in controversy shall exceed $500, and in all criminal cases, writs of error and appeals shall lie from the district court of Alaska, or from any division thereof, to the Supreme Court for the Territory of Alaska, and the judgments, orders, and decrees of said court shall bel final in all such cases. But when ever such supreme court may desire the instruction of the Supreme Court of the United States upon any ques- tion or proposition of law which shall have arisen in any such case, the court may certify such question or proposition to the Supreme Court, and thereupon the Supreme Court shall give it's instruction upon the question or proposition certified toI it, and it's instructions shall be bind ing upon the supreme court for the Territory.
 Sec. 3.-That Section 1889, Chap ter 51, of the Compiled Laws of Alas ka, 1913, shall be amended to read as follows:
 be taken to the supreme court of the Territory from any interlocultory order granting or dissolving an in junction refusing to grant or dis solve an injunction made or ren- dered in any cause pending before the district court within sixty days after the entry of such interlocutory order. The proceedings in other re- 
 spects in the ristrict court in the cause in which such interlicutory order was made shall be stayed dur ing the dependency of such appeal, unless otherwise ordered by the dis trict court
 "sec. 4.-That Section 1889 1-3, Chapter 51, of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1913, shall be amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 1889 1-3.-That hereafter all appeals, writs of error, and other cases coming from the district court for the Territory of Alaska to the Supreme Court for the Territory of Alaska shall be entered upon the docket and heard at Juneau, in the