Zander v. Coe

Citations

• 5 Cal. 230
• 1855 Cal. LEXIS 89

Syllabus

<p>The cognizance of all cases, where the sum involved exceeds $200, is Toy the Constitution distributed between the Supreme, District, County and Probate Courts, and the Court of Sessions, and nothing is left by the Constitution for the Legislature to do, in granting or defining jurisdiction.</p> <p>The disposition of cases, where the sum does not exceed $200, and only these, is left to be prescribed by the Legislature, and they may be vested either in the County Court, under the provisions of the ninth section, or in Justices Courts, under the fourteenth section.</p> <p>The Legislature can not confer on one Court, the functions and powers which the Constitution has conferred on another.</p> <p>The law vesting Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction of a case, where the amount in controversy^exceeds S200, is unconstitutional and void.</p>