Show POWERS OF V question decided that could not be left open without injury speaking upon the decision rendered by the territorial supreme court as to the powers of S commissioners ners mention of which was made in our last issue the says the action of the court decides a question that could not be left open without injury as in that condition it was liable to lead to complications and serious wrong to interested parties judge henderson has been particularly happy in making it perfectly clear that the co ednal power and jurisdiction of S commissioners ners with justices of th peace must necessarily be subject to similar territorial limitations as the latter are under otherwise the equality would not exist it is difficult to understand how any other view could be taken than the one expressed by the decision what a manifest absurdity crould exist if n TJ S commissioner located in logan could while officiating offic fating in a similar capacity to that of a justice of the peace tabo jurisdiction of a case and try it if the offense involved had been committed in st george or vice versa this is right while he is acting in his office proper that of commissioner but there is little if anything upon which to base a claim that his jurisdiction over trial cases is territorially extensive coextensive co while officiating as a justice of the such an outspread out spread jurisdiction would be in excess of that enjoyed by the district courts which ar limited to the trial of cases in which the offense in question when the cause is a criminal one has been committed within the judicial district in which the court is situated the possibilities under a jurisdiction of cases that come under the cognizance of justices of the peace wielded by 17 S commissioners limited only by territorial lines would be tremendous they might not occur to any great extent but the taking of defendants witnesses and other interested parties long distances involving great and unnecessary ex pense cannot properly be possible un der a system of jurisprudence based on common sense and fairness the decision rendered thursday confining the jurisdiction of U S commissioners in cases which come equally coequally co under the purview of justices of the peace is a goob one and the reasons on which it is based ex sound |