Case ID: ky_33/html/0499-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Parks vs. Hulme.
    Apfeae Fwm a JT. jPL-
    [Mr. Nicholas for plaintiff: Mr. J. J. Marshall for defendant.]
    From the Circuit Court for Jefferson County.
    
      October 29.
    Whenever the judgment of a Justice exceeds £5 — whether for the plaintiff', or for a defendant who claims a balance after a set-off — the County Court can not take- cognizance of the appeal, even though the warrant was for lessthan£5,and it must go to the Circuit Court; where the trial may be had, and judgment rendered, foreither party, for whatever sum hemay show himself entitled to recover.
   Chief Justice

UoBBKYSoirdelivered the Opinion of the Court..

Parks sued Hulme before a Justice of the Peace, on an account for five dollars. Hulme pleaded an account against Parks, for fifty dollars, as a set oif, and obtained a judgment against him for forty five dollars.. Parks appealed to the Circuit Court; and the Circuit Judge dismissed the appeal, for a supposed want of jurisdiction. And this writ of error is brought to-reverse that judgment*

The County Court could not have talien, cognizance of the appeal, because the amount of the judgment appealed from exceeded five- pounds;, and consequently, as “the amount in controversy” was more than five pounds, the Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the appeal: and if, on the trial in that Court, the appellee had failed to establish his right, judgment should have been rendered in favor of the appellant.

Wherefore, the judgment of the Circuit Court is reversed, and the cause remanded.