12-403. Transfer of action to new
county


All actions and proceedings, civil and criminal, pending at the time of the
organization of a new county or the changing of county boundaries, if such action or
proceeding should have been instituted in the new or changed county had it been organized
before the institution thereof, shall be transferred to the new or changed county, and
filed, docketed and proceeded with in like courts, or before like officers of the new
county. The original papers shall be sent and transferred to the new or changed county,
together with authenticated transcripts of the proceedings had therein up to the time of
the transfer, and the courts and officers of the new or changed county shall have the
same jurisdiction in, and power over, the actions and proceedings as they would have, had
they been originally begun in or before them. Any failure or defect in a transcript or
the authentication thereof, or transfer, may be cured at any time.