114 Iowa 378 | Iowa | 1901
II. Section 1, article 5, of the constitution is as follows: “The judicial power shall be vested in the supreme court, district court, and such other courts, inferior to the supreme court, as the general assembly may, from time to time, establish.” Said law creating superior courts provides that cities containing a certain population “may estab- ’ lish a superior court, as hereinafter provided, which, when established, shall take the place of the police court of such
III. Section 6 of said chapter 143' (section 260, Code) is as follows:
“Sec. 6. Said court shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the district and circuit courts as now and hereafter provided by law, except where said courts respectively have exclusive jurisdiction and except actions for divorce, and of all appeals and writs of error, in civil cases, from justices’ courts within the township or townships in which the city is located, and by consent of parties from justices’ courts in other townships in the county, said appeals and writs of error to be taken in the same time and manner as if the same were taken to the circuit court, and the exclusive original jurisdiction to try and determine all actions civil and criminal for the violation of city ordinances, and all the jurisdiction conferred upon police courts as now and*381 heretofore provided by law, and all the jurisdiction co-extensive and concurrent with justices of the peace, in all actions, civil and' criminal, as now are or may be hereafter provided by law, and for the trial of criminal actions shall be opened at such times and under such rules as the court shall prescribe.”