“Jurisdiction can never depend upon the merits of the case brought before the court, but only upon its right to hear and decide at all.”
How later courts described this case
- “Jurisdiction can never depend upon the merits of the case brought before the court, but only upon its right to hear and decide at all.”
- "Jurisdiction is the power to decide a justiciable controversy ...." (citation omitted)
- “Jurisdiction can never depend upon the merits of the case brought before the court, but only upon its right to hear *160 and decide at all.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
EPHRAIM HANSON, Justice
(concurring).
I think the application for a permanent writ should be denied and that the alternative writ heretofore issued should be vacated and held for nought.