In re Mitchell

Citations

• 120 Cal. 384
• 52 P. 799
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 776

Syllabus

<p>Police Coubt oe Los Angeles.—The police court of the City of Los Angeles was lawfully organized under the act of March 18, 1885, known as the Whitney act, providing for police courts in cities having thirty thousand and under one hundred thousand inhabitants; and the act of February, 1897, authorizing any city or city and county of the state to take its census, under which Los Angeles was then found to have more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, did not work an implied repeal of the act under which the police court was organized; nor .did the increase of population operate to discontinue the court which was lawfully organized under that act, in the absence of further legislative action to that end.</p>