Article 22 Section 7 - Causes pending in district courts of territory; records, papers, and property
7. Causes pending in district courts of territory;
records, papers, and property
Section 7. Whenever the judge of the superior court of any
county, elected or appointed under the provisions of this Constitution, shall
have qualified, the several causes then pending in the district court of the
Territory, and in and for such county, except such causes as would have been
within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States courts, had such courts
existed at the time of the commencement of such causes within such county, and
the records, papers, and proceedings of said district court, and other
property pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession
of the superior court of such county.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of the district court having custody
of such papers, records, and property, to transmit to the clerk of said
superior court the original papers in all cases pending in such district and
belonging to the jurisdiction of said superior court, together with a
transcript, or transcripts, of so much of the record of said district court as
shall relate to the same; and until the district courts of the Territory shall
be superseded in manner aforesaid, and as in this Constitution provided, the
said district courts, and the judges thereof, shall continue with the same
jurisdiction and powers, to be exercised in the same judicial district,
respectively, as heretofore, and now, constituted.