Case ID: mo_137/html/0186-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Brace, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Riffe, Appellant, v. Wabash Railroad Company.
    Division One,
    January 26, 1897.
    Appellate Jurisdiction: amount in dispute. Where in an action for damages charged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence, the petition contains two counts and each count seeks a recovery on the same cause of action and prays judgment in the sum of $1,500, the amount in dispute, on an appeal from a judgment for the defendant, is such sum, and the proper court of appeals, and not the supreme court, has jurisdiction of the appeal.
    
      Appeal from, Bay Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge.
    Transferred to Kansas City court op appeals.
    
      J. F. Ball and J. L. Farris & Bon for appellant.
    
      F. W. Lehmann and Geo. 8. Grover for respondent.
   Brace, J.

This is an action to recover damages in the sum of $1,500, sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the overflowing of his lands in Ray county by the waters of Rollins creek. The finding and judgment of the trial court were for defendant.

The petition is in two counts. In the first the plaintiff charges that the defendant, after, having changed the natural course of said creek into a new channel prepared therefor, failed to keep the embankments thereof in repair, so that in the month of July, 1893, the waters of said creek escaped therefrom and flowed over the premises of the plaintiff to his damage in the sum of $1,500. The second count predicates a right of recovery for the same amount for the same injuries, from the bame overflow, upon the alleged neg•ligence of the defendant in permitting said artificial channel to become filled up, and in permitting the said embankment to become out of repair.

So that both counts seek a single recovery of $1,500, for the same injuries, and the amount in dispute is less than $2,500, and no other ground for the jurisdiction of this court appearing in the record, this cause is within the jurisdiction of the Kansas City court of appeals, to which it ought to be transferred, and it is accordingly so ordered.

All concur.