Excerpt from The Northwestern Reporter, Vol. 184: Comprising All the Decisions of the Supreme Courts of Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, With Key-Number Annotations; September 16-December 16, 1921 Sec. 2. In any county having more than one probate Judge the judge who has served the longest period continuously shall be called the presiding judge who may, by an order duly made and entered in the journal of the court, authorize the register thereof to sign in the name of the judge who made the same, all orders or decrees of such court. With the same force and effect as though said judge had signed them. In all such cases said register shall place his initials under said signature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.