Case ID: ala_31/html/0057-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BICE, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STEIN vs. FELTHEIMER.
    [ACTION FOR DAMAGES AGAINST LESSEE OP MOBILE ‘WATER-WORKS.]
    1. Practice in appeal cases involving less than twenty dollars. — In an appeal case involving less than twenty dollars, which is tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, (Code, § 2369,) to enable the supreme coart to revise the judgment of the circuit court, all the evidence must be set out in the bill of exceptions.
    
      Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Mobile.
    Tried before tbe Hon. Thomas A. Walkeb,.
    This action was brought against Albert Stein, tbe lessee of tbe city water-works of Mobile, to recover $10 damages for unlawfully closing and stopping tbe plaintiff’s hydrant; was commenced in a justice’s court, and removed by tbe defendant to tbe circuit court. Tbe judgmert of tbe circuit court is now assigned as error.
    E. S. BloüNT, and B. H. Smith, for appellants.
    Geo. N. StewaRT, contra.
    
   BICE, C. J.

— On an appeal to tbe circuit court, from tbe judgment of a justice of tbe peace, when tbe sum claimed does not exceed twenty dollars, tbe cause must be tried by tbe court without tbe intervention of a j ury. It is not necessary to file any complaint or any plea. Code, §§ 2368, 2369. No complaint or plea was filed in this case; but tbe parties submitted tbe cause to the court, and adduced such evidence as they respectively thought proper to adduce ; and, after bearing all tbe evidence, tbe court gave judgment for tbe plaintiff, for ten dollars and costs. ’Whether tbe court erred in its judgment upon tbe evidence, it is impossible for us to say, because tbe bill of exceptions does not set forth all tbe evidence which was submitted to the court below. To have enabled us to revise that judgment, all tbe evidence should have been set out in tbe record. — Barnes v. Mobley, 21 Ala. 232; Shaw v. Beers, 25 Ala. 449.

Tbe record does not show any error, and tbe judgment must be affirmed.