Case ID: sc_61/html/0123-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Pope.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BAKER v. IRVINE.
    
      See Baker v. Irvine, ante.
    
    Before Aldrich, J., Greenville, November, 1900.
    Reversed.
    Action for damages for conversion of personal property by W. G. Baker against W. H. Irvine. From Circuit order reversing judgment of magistrate, plaintiff appeals.
    
      Messrs. Blythe & Blythe, for appellant.
    
      Messrs. Carey & McCullough and Shuman & Mooney, contra.
    July 13, 1901.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Pope.

This action was commenced in the magistrate’s court for Bates and Paris Mountain townships of Greenville County for the recovery of money. After one postponement at the instance of the defendant, the trial was held on the 6th December, 1899, and resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff. Thereupon an appeal was taken to the Court of Common Pleas for Greenville County, and came on for a hearing before his Honor, Judge James Aldrich. At this juncture the defendant raised the question of the magistrate’s jurisdiction, because he was the trial justice for Bates and Paris Mountain townships, while the defendant resided in Greenville township. The Circuit Judge sustained the objection of the defendant, and reversed and vacated the judgment of the magistrate. Thereupon the plaintiff appealed to this Court. But inasmuch as the proceedings, the judgment of Judge Aldrich, and the grounds of appeal are precisely similar to those fully set out in the case of J. A. Baker and W. C. Baker, as appellants, against W. H. Irvine, as respondent, our judgment in this case must be necessarily the same as the case just cited, and in which our decision has been filed this day.

It is, therefore, the judgment of this Court, thát the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and that the action be remitted to the Circuit Court to hear and determine the questions presented by the appeal of the defendant from the judgment of the magistrate’s court.