State ex rel. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. v. District Court of the Second Judicial District
State ex rel. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. v. District Court of the Second Judicial District
Opinion of the Court
Per Curxam. — Tbe motions to dismiss the applications herein are sustained, and the proceedings are accordingly dismissed.
In causes numbered 1,962, 1,964 and 1,965, being applications to this court for writs of supervisory control to prohibit the court of the Second judicial district, with Judge Clancy presiding, from proceeding with the hearing of three certain causes set for trial in that court, in which the Boston & Montana Company, the Anaconda, Copper Mining Company and the Washoe Company are parties, the causes involved having been submitted to the court under motions to dismiss on the ground, that this court has no jurisdiction, after as careful an examination as we have been able to give to the legal questions involved during the brief time we have had at our disposal, the court has reached the conclusion that it cannot interfere.
I wish to say, speaking for myself, that my view of this-matter is this: The people of the- state organized their government; the scheme of that government is contained in the Constitution of the state and statutes enacted in pursuance there
I do not assent to the proposition that a man, even the humblest citizen in this state, has not the legal right to a fair and impartial trial. Every citizen has that right, but no remedy is provided for cases in which that right is not accorded by district courts, except by impeachment of the judge who refuses it, or by discipline at the polls, or through the medium of disbarment proceedings.
I join in the order denying the rela-tors’ petitions, for the reason that I am not convinced that under the facts alleged in the petitions the writ of supervisory control is the right remedy, if there be any, and not being satisfied, I therefore join in the order. I do- not wish to be understood, however, as saying that in the state of Montana the law is as claimed by the respondents, that is — that a judge can lawfully sit on the bench in a criminal case and try John Doe or Nichard Noe for murder of the judge’s wife, or for highway robbery committed fipon him, the judge, — that is the position taken by
Reference
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- STATE ex rel. ANACONDA COPPER MINING CO., Relators v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, and WILLIAM CLANCY, Judge Thereof, Respondents STATE ex rel. BOSTON & MONTANA CONSOL. COPPER & SILVER MINING CO., Relator v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, and WILLIAM CLANCY, Judge Thereof
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- Published