Case ID: del_12/html/0327-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Washington Baldwin v. James Coyle.
    
      Foreign Judgment—Jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace.
    
    A suit upon a foreign judgment is not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace in this State.
    
      (New Castle,
    
    
      December 6, 1885.)
    Appeal from Bertolette, Justice of the Peace for New Castle County.
    The suit before him was on a judgment recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, in the State of Pennsylvania, for the sum of forty-three dollars and seventy-three cents and costs, with interest, etc.
    
      Richardson, for the defendant,
    now submitted a motion to the court to dismiss the appeal because an action on a foreign judgment or on a judgment recovered in another State, even for a sum less than one hundred dollars, is not within the jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace in this State.
   The Court

so held, and dismissed the appeal.