Butler, C. J. We do not assent to the claim made on behalf of the state, that Mr. Morse, when he rendered the judgment in question, was acting as a justice of the peace with enlarged powers. He was not called in, within the intention of the law, to hold a justice’s court in the City Court room, but to hold the City Court as constituted by law, and as an acting judge of it, and he did hold that court, an…
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