Case ID: dc_2/html/0446-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sherburne v. Semmes and Wife.
    
      Qucere, whether this Court has jurisdiction of an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace upon the verdict of a jury. N
    This was an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, who tried the cause by a jury, under the late Act of Congress for enlarging the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the District of Columbia, March 1, 1823. [3 Stat. at Large, 743.]
   The Court,

having doubts concerning their jurisdiction, requested the gentlemen of the bar, if so disposed, to argue the question, whether this Court can try a case, either with or without a jury, which has been tried by a jury before a justice of the peace; and for that purpose, continued until the next term, all the appeals in cases over the value of $20.