Case ID: mo-app_76/html/0558-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ellison, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jesse French Piano & Organ Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. A. B. Walker, Defendant in Error.
    Kansas City Court of Appeals,
    November 7, 1898.
    Jurisdiction: concurrent in circuit court and justices’ courts : value. Justices of the peace and the circuit court have concurrent jurisdiction in replevin where the value of the property is more than $50 and less than $250.
    
      Appeal from the Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge.
    Reversed and remanded.
    O. B. Sebastian and H. S. Booth for plaintiffs in error.
    The value of the piano, $150, was within the jurisdiction of the circuit court, according to the opinion of this court in Lang v. Calloway, 68 Mo. App. 393, and Holt v. Collyer, 71 Mo. App. 280.
   Ellison, J.

This was an action in replevin to recover a piano valued at $150 and was begun in the circuit court of Boone county. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff and afterward set aside and cause dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

It is stated that the court took the view that a justice of the peace had exclusive jurisdiction in replevin when the property was of the value here claimed. This was erroneous. The jurisdiction is concurrent with justices of the peace where the sum is more than $50 and less than $250, as is shown in Lang v. Calloway, 68 Mo. App. 393; Holt v. Collyer, 71 Mo. App. 280. See, also, Laws 1891, pp. 106, 107, 108 and 175. The judgment is reversed and cause remanded.

All concur.