Case ID: ill-app_21/html/0293-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Workman v. F. M. Neal.
    
      Injury to Personal Property — Jurisdiction of Justice.
    
    A Justice of the Peace has jurisdiction of an action to recover damages for an injury to personal property.
    [Opinion filed November 20, 1886.]
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon County; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding.
    Mr. N. M. Broadwell, for appellant.
    Messrs. Patton & Hamilton, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

This was a suit before a Justice of the Peace to recover damages for injury to personal property, and was dismissed by the Circuit Court upon appeal, on the ground that the justice had no j urisdiction of the snbj ect-matter. We think this was error, for reasons stated in the opinion filed in Skinner et ah v. Morgan, decided at this term. See also C. & A. R. R. Co. v. Calkins, 17 Ill. App. 56.

Reversed and remanded.