Case ID: kan_92/html/0786-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18,788.
    Scott Wilson, Appellee, v. D. Fisher, Appellant.
    
    HEADNOTE BY THE REPORTER.
    Jurisdiction — Amount Involved Less than $100 — Case Dismissed. Where the amount in controversy on appeal to this court is less than $100 the appeal will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction (Civ. Code, § 566).
    Appeal from Comanche district court; Gordon I/. Finley, judge.
    Opinion filed July 7, 1914.
    Dismissed.
    
      G. M. Martin, of Medicine Lodge, for the appellant.
    
      Dick H. Rich, of Coldwater, for the appellee.
   Per Curiam:

Action brought by plaintiff to recover $145.75 for labor and material furnished to defendant. Defendant admitted the correctness of all of plaintiff’s claim except the sum of $19.95, but he set up a claim for* goods furnished to plaintiff to the amount of $149.05. Plaintiff replied admitting that he had obtained goods from the defendant to the amount of $82.11 and asked judgment against defendant for $63.64, the difference between his claim of $145.75 and $82.11. The case was submitted to a referee, who made findings upon which the court rendered judgment against defendant in the sum of $5.51. It thus appears that the amount in controversy, so far as defendant is concerned, is less than $100. Defendant’s entire claim was $149.05 and he admits that he was owing plaintiff on account the sum of $125.80. The difference between these amounts, $23.25, was the extent of his claim against the plaintiff. This sum added to the amount of the judgment rendered falls far short of $100, the amount necessary to give jurisdiction on appeal. (Civ. Code, § 566.) Indeed the disputed claims of both taken together did not amount to the jurisdictional amount of $100. The appeal will, therefore, be dismissed.