Case ID: ala_20/html/0287-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PHELAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CROSBY vs. BRANTLY.
    1. When a judgment by default is rendered in the Circuit Court on an appeal from the judgment of a Justice of the Peace, and the cause of action-is an open account for a less sum than twenty dollars, the record must show that proof was made to the court of the correctness of the demand; and if it docs not, the judgment -will be reversed.
    Error to the Circuit Court of Conecuh.
    Tried before the Hon. Robert Dougherty.
    Watts, Judge & JacesoN, for plaintiff in error.
    No counsel for defendant.
   PHELAN, J.

The action below was on an open account, for a sum less than twenty dollars, and was brought to the Circuit Court by appeal. The judgment was by default, and the record does not show that any proof was made to the court of the correctness of the demand. This was an error, as this court has expressly decided, in Kenum v. Henderson, 6 Ala. 132, and Witherington v. Brantly, 18 ib. 197.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.