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no serious objection to concurrent power in that field.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Delegate Mudd, was it
discussed by your committee or inthe committee that
when a superior court judge was not present in his county
but had been assigned, let us assume for the moment,
to some other jurisdiction to relieve a caseload there
that a district court judge located in that same county
or in that district would be available to sign orders
such as injunctive orders or probate matters, or things of
that kind? If so, how would that be accomplished?
DELEGATE MUDD: It could be accomplished by
two means. One, the legislature should prescribe concur-
rent jurisdiction at the two-tier level. Then recourse
might be had to the judge of either court.
On the other hand, the power of the court by
rule to provide for assignment of judges, which, as I
understand it, is contemplated to be either laterally or
from a lower or higher tier; it can be accomplished in eith
or in both ways.
THE CHAIRMAN: If there areno further questions