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Report Of Legislative Subcommitee On Justice Court Procedure, John H. Neergaard

Washington Law Review

Last year your Subcommittee on Practice and Procedure of Justices of the Peace and Inferior Courts, following the failure of the state Legislature to provide funds for a study, accepted the responsibility of making a report this year. Contact was immediately established with the local bar associations in the state and the prosecuting attorneys of the state. Most of the counties have from one to seven justices of the peace. Lincoln, Whitman, Okanogan, Lewis, Grant, Snohonish, and Yakima have eight to seventeen. Pierce County has twenty-one and King County fifty-three. Eighteen counties reported that there were no justices of the …