| Show an important decision ax important decision was tendered bythe territorial supreme court yesterday in the case of the people ex rel vs john E hilas the case was to prohibit commissioner hills from further proceeding in civil cases now pending before him the commissioner claimed jurisdiction and the right to proceed in the cases under section 7 of the ed meads tucker act that commissioners shall possess and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction possessed or exercised by justices of the peace the court decided that while having the power of a justice of the peace a commissioner can not sit in cases out of the precinct in which he resides |
