Case ID: serg-rawl_8/html/0343-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Eason against Smith.
    An action will not lie be. fore a justice of the peace, due on a j'udg™ent ‘VN Court of Com. mon Pleas.
    .In ERROR.
    WRIT of error to Lycoming county.
    _ . Campbell, for the plaintiff in error, stated the question to be, whether an action would lie before a justice of the peace, for the balance due on a judgment in the Court of Common T>, , - , Fleas; and referred to the Act of 20th March, 1810, sec. 14, Purd. Di?. 339.
    
    The Court did not hear Burnside, for the defendant in error.
   By the Court.

The only question in this case is, whether an action lies before a justice of the peace, to receive the balance (under one hundred dollars) due on a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace, is founded altogether on Acts of Assembly. No Act has been produced giving jurisdiction in a case of this kind. Consequently, the justice before whom this suit was commenced, had no jurisdiction, and the judgment given (,y t{je Court of Common Pleas, for the defendant below, should be affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.