Iroquois County v. Viets’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ A rule that a justice might hold an inquest whenever it would be inconvenient to notify the coroner or to wait for his attendance would be too uncertain in its application. How far must the coroner be from the subject of the inquest? What physical conditions must exist ? Will it do for the justice to proceed because there is no communication by telephone or telegraph with the coroner or because there is no railroad between the place or no train for several hours ? . We do not see how there could be any rule of that kind capable of application. We think that a coroner is entitled to .perform the duties and receive the fees of his office, and that it is only in the event of his absence from the county that the statute authorizes a justice of the peace to act in his place.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Board of County Commissioners v. Wilson