Case ID: wash_39/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pee Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 5536.
    Decided July 18, 1905.)
    The State of Washington, on the Relation of Tillie Bassett, Respondent, v. J. A. Freasure, Justice of the Peace, Appellant.
      
    
    Appeal—Appealable Orders—Amount in Controversy. The supreme court has no jurisdiction of an appeal from an order of the superior court, reversing, on certiorari, a judgment of a justice of the peace, where the original amount in controversy did not exceed $200, and the validity of a tax or statute was not involved.
    Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Bell, J., entered October 3, 1904, after a hearing upon a writ of review, before the court without a jury, reversing and vacating the judgment of a justice of the peace.
    Appeal dismissed.
    
      W. B. Osbourn> for appellant.
    
      William 0. Keith, for respondent.
    
      
      Reported in 81 Pac. 688.
    
   Pee Curiam.

On the 1st day of October, 1904, the superior court of King county, on application for a writ of review, made an order directing one of the justices of the peace of said county to vacate and set aside a judgment theretofore rendered by said justice, and to grant a change of venue in the action in which the judgment was rendered. From this order the plaintiff appeals.

The proceeding before the justice was a civil action at law for the recovery of a money judgment, where the original amount in controversy did not exceed the sum of $200, and where the legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll, municipal fine, or the validity of a statute was not involved. Under the plain provisions- of the constitution and the numerous decisions of this court, we have no jurisdiction of this appeal. State ex rel. Gillette v. Superior Court, 22 Wash. 496, 61 Pac. 158; State ex rel. Wallace v. Superior Court, 24 Wash. 605, 64 Pac. 778.

The appeal is therefore dismissed.