Blake v. Peckham

Citations

• 64 Ill. 362

Syllabus

<p>County court of La Salle cotisty—jurisdiction thereof: By tbe act of 1872, extending the jurisdiction of county courts, it is provided that, “in addition to the jurisdiction now conferred by law on the county courts of this State, they shall hereafter have” certain other jurisdiction: Held, that this act must be Construed in the light of the 29th section of article 6 of the constitution of 1870, which provides “that all laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the organization, jurisdiction, powers, proceedings and practice of the same class or grade * * * * * shall he uniform,” and in so construing it, by the words in the act, “in addition to the jurisdiction now conferred by law,” must be meant such jurisdiction as had theretofore been conferred on county courts by general and not special laws. And when the act of 1872 went into force, the county court of LaSalle county had no longer the right to exercise the extended jurisdiction conferred upon it by the special act of 1865.</p>