6 Cal. 582 | Cal. | 1856
Mr. Chief Justice Murray and Mr. Justice Terry concurred.
The Legislature, in creating the Superior Court of the city of San Francisco, acted under power given it in the Constitution, “ to establish such municipal and other inferior Courts as may be deemed necessary.”
The jurisdiction of a municipal Court must necessarily he confined to the municipal territory for which it was especially created, and the Legislature has no power to extend its jurisdiction, so as to let its process run beyond its territory.
The Act giving such power to the Superior Court, is therefore invalid.
The order made against the appellant is reversed.