. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. rts of Common Pleas. These courts were given exclusive juris-diction in probate matters and concurrent jurisdiction with the Cir-cuit courts in some other matters. This created great the courts assumed to pass upon the constitutionality of lawsenacted by the General Assembly, and the state witnessed theanomaly of having laws enforced in one county and declared uncon- 62 JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES stit
. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. rts of Common Pleas. These courts were given exclusive juris-diction in probate matters and concurrent jurisdiction with the Cir-cuit courts in some other matters. This created great the courts assumed to pass upon the constitutionality of lawsenacted by the General Assembly, and the state witnessed theanomaly of having laws enforced in one county and declared uncon- 62 JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES stitutional in another. When the Legislature enacted the prohibitoryliquor law in 1855, some of the Circuit judges declared it constitu-tional and enforced it, while others declared it void. This lasteduntil the Supreme Court finally overthrew the law. The confusiongrew worse after the Common Pleas Court was estabhshed, forthen some counties were operating under two different laws at thesame time, according as the opinions of the judges differed. Thisconfusion could not last, and finally the General Assembly abolishedthe Courts of Common Pleas, and in counties where the business. The Courthouse of the Present was too great to be transacted by the Circuit courts, Superior andCriminal courts have been established, with well defined juris-diction. Circuit Court, a Monopoly of Judicial Power From the consolidation of Jasper and Newton counties, and theestablishment of the county seat at the Falls of the Iroquois Riverin 1839, to the adoption of the second state constitution in 1851,the immediate judicial affairs of that territory were under the juris-diction of the Circuit and Probate courts, with right of appeal tothe State Supreme Court; in 1852 all probate matters were trans-ferred to the Common Pleas Court; the Circuit Court continued itsjurisdiction, with the abolishment of the two associate judges, and JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 63 in 1873 absorbed the Court of Common Pleas. So t
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