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 | | Hof appealed to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which on February 17, 1897, reversed that order, and remanded the case, with directions to quash the writ of certiorari. |
 | | Justices of the peace in the District of Columbia, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon them by congress to try and determine cases, criminal or civil, are doubtless, in some sense, judicial officers. |
 | | In 1863 all the powers and jurisdiction previously possessed by the circuit court of the District, including the appellate jurisdiction from justices of the peace, were transferred by congress to the supreme court of the District of Columbia. |
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