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      "GIDEON PERRY and others v. AUGUSTUS SHEPHERD and others."
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        "text": "Reads, J.\nOur reports furnish but one instance of the use of the writ of prohibition in the State, which must be-owing to the fact that we have other remedies more appropriate and equally efficacious. It cannot be said that a new case has arisen calling for this unusual remedy, because forcible entry and detainer as this was, which is sought to be prohibited, has been common in our Courts. The case alluded to in which it was resorted to, is State v. Allen, 2 Ire. 183, in which it was sought to prohibit the de facto Commissioners for laying off the seat of justice of Henderson County from acting. It was held that it would not lie in that case, and the Court did not say that it would lie in any case, but did say that if any Court had the power, it ought to be exercised with caution, and never used except in a yery clear case calling for an immediate remedy.\nAnd -the same rule obtains in England where it is a common law writ, framed to give the Ring\u2019s Bench jurisdiction to restrain all the inferior Courts of the realm within their proper jurisdiction. And it Was subsequently extended to the other Courts at Westminster. \u201cThe Supreme Courts of Westminster having a superintendency of all inferior Courts, may in all cases of innovation, &c., hward a prohibition. In this, the power of the .Court of Ring\u2019s Bench has never been doubted, being the Superior Common Law Court in the Ringdom.\u201d Bacon\u2019s Ah. Title, Prohibition, A.\n. It will be observed that no inferior Court in England had power to issue the writ. It was a high prerogative writ, and in the case' of the Company of Horners in London, it is said that it is the.jtroper power and honor of the Court of Ring\u2019s Bench io limit the jurisdiction of all other Courts. Bacon\u2019s Ab. Title, Prohibition, A, note (a) 2 Roll. R. 471. If then it be used in this State at all, what Court ought to \u25a0issue it ? It would seem upon principle and by analogy, that it ought to be the Supreme Court, and not an inferior Court.\nIf there was any doubt before the adoption of our present Constitution, itwould seem to'be plain now. The jurisdiction of the Superior Court is defined in the Constitution and in the-statutes. It isa Court of original jurisdiction, to hear and determine cases indicated, and to try appeals from inferior Courts. But there is no power express or implied to supervise and control inferior Courts. But that power is expressly given to the Supreme Court.\n\u201cThe Supreme Courtshall have * * * power to issue any remedial writs necessary to give it a general supervision and control of the inferior Courts.\u201d Art.- IY \u00a7 10.\nWe \u00e1r\u00e9 \u00f3f the opinion that th\u00e9 Superior \u00f3ourfc had n& power io isSue th\u00e9 writ of prohibition in this case.\nIt would nbt be necessary for us to go further, but it was desired by both sides that w\u00e9 should decide the other question, Upon which indeed WaS the burden of the argument, whether a Justice of the Pe\u00e1ce has jurisdiction Of forcible-entry and detainer ?\nIt was .properly conceded for the defendants, that we-must hold that d Justice of tli\u00e9 Peace lias not such jurisdiction, unless We overrule, as we wer\u00e9 asked t\u00e9 do, three of four cases lately decided in this Court. We have reconsidered those caSes in the light of the really le\u00e1fn\u00e9d arg\u00fa-\u00edri\u00e9nts oh both sidfes, and We f\u00e9\u00e9l obliged td \u00e1dh\u00e9re to th\u00e9ih. It is a matter of practice involving not the right, but the rehiedy. It Was much considered'at the time Of those decisions, arid conceding that it was not free from doubt, \u00e1nd conceding also that in soth'\u00e9 respects it would be a convenient remedy, yet in other respects it would be mischievous*, arid so the better opinion Was, that the jurisdiction did not exist.\nSuppos\u00e9 the question Were still doubtful upon principle- and upon authority other than those of our own, what Ought w\u00e9 to do ? Overrule therri 1 If so what Security woujd there be that we may not revert to thejn at some subsequent term, and wreck all who may s\u00e9t sail und\u00e9r the-last decision. A matter of right or of principle is eternal, and if by inadvertence we depart from it, we must return at the earliest opportunity; but as to the remedy or a matter of practice, although one way may be a little better than the oth\u00e9r, yet the most important matter is to make th\u00e9 way certain.\nIt is from no want of appreciation of the argument with which we -Were favored, that we do not enter into the discussion anew. It is decided. Let it stand until the Legislature may alter it. The Act of 1874-75 has not that effect.. It only makes the plea of title a more solemn act, by requiring an oath. Perry v. Tupper, 70 N. C. 538; State v. Yarborough, 70 N. C. 250; A. T. & O. R. R. v. Sharpe, Ibid 509.\nThere is error. There will be judgment here that the proceedings for the writ of prohibition be dismissed, and that the defendants recover costs.\nError.\nPer, Curiam. Proceedings dismissed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. D. Q. FoiderBusbec ft JBusbee, A. M. Lewis and G.. S. Snow, for plaintiffs.",
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    "head_matter": "GIDEON PERRY and others v. AUGUSTUS SHEPHERD and others.\nJurisdiction \u2014 Prohibition\u2014Forcible En'ry and Detainer.\n1. The Superior Courts have no power to issue a writ of prohibition. The Supreme Court has the sole jurisdiction to issue such writ.\n2. A Justice of the Peace has no jurisdiction of an action of forcible entry and detainer.\n{State v. Allen, 2 Ire. 183 ; Perry v. Tapper, 70 N. C. 538 ; State r. Yar-borough, 72 N. C. 250 ; A, T. & O. B. B. Go. v. Sharpe, Ibid. 509, cited and approved.)\n(RodmaN, J. Dissenting.)\nApplication for a Writ of Prohibition heard at Chambers in Raleigh on the 28th of January, 1878, before Cox, J.\nThe plaintiff's alleged that the defendants had instituted an action of Forcible Entry and Detainer before a Justice of the Peace against them, and were prosecuting the same in the Justice\u2019s Court without authority of law, and demanded that said Justice be restrained and prohibited from proceeding further in said action, and that the same be transmitted to the Superior Court of Wake County.\nThe defendants demurred and assigned as cause; 1st. That plaintiffs could obtain complete and adequate redress for the alleged wrongs complained of in their complaint, by a writ of recordari from the Superior Court, and without resorting to the extraordinary prerogative writ of prohibition ; 2d. \u2014 That the complaint shows that the Justice of the Peace has jurisdiction to take cognizance of, hear and determine proceedings for forcible entry and detainer.\nHis Honor adjudged that the demurrer be overruled, and \u25a0the writ of prohibition issue as prayed for in the complaint. From which judgment the defendants appealed. (See Perry v. Tupper, 74\u2014722; S. C. 71\u2014380, 5; S. C. 70\u2014538.)\nMessrs. D. Q. FoiderBusbec ft JBusbee, A. M. Lewis and G.. S. Snow, for plaintiffs.\nMessrs. E. G. Haywood and A. W. Tourgee, for defendants.\nSmith, C. J. having been of counsel, did not sit on the hearing of this case."
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