Case ID: me_5/html/0126-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Murray, plaintiff in review vs. Ulmer, original plaintiff.
    
    An action of trespass quart clausum frtgit, originally brought before a Justice of the peace, and tried upon revie iv in the Court of Common Pleas, may be brought by appeal into this Court, though no plea of soil and freehold was filed before the magistrate, the' defendant having been accidentally defaulted.
    
      Ulmer brought, before a Justice of the peace, an action of trespass quart clausum fregit against Murray, who was defaulted by accident, and judgment entered against him for twenty dollars damages, with costs. Murray then applied to the Court of Common Pleas for a writ of review, which was granted; and upon trial of the review upon the plea of soil and freehold, judgment was rendered in that court for the original defendant; and thereupon Ulmer appealed to this court, and at the last October term became nonsuit. Murray moved for costs, which was opposed by a motion on the part of Ulmer to set aside the nonsuit, and dismiss the action, as having been improperly brought into this court.
    
      Sprague, for the original plantiff,
    contended that no appeal would-lie, in a case like the present. The statute gave the right of appeal only in cases originally commenced in the Court of Common Pleas. But a single exception is made, which is of actions of tresspass quare clausum, commenced before a Justice of the peace, where the plea of soil and freehold is filed with the magistrate, and the case brought up by recognizance. But this case is neither within the rule, nor the exception.
    
      .hittie, for the original defendant.
   The Court

overruled this motion, and sustained the appeal, rendering judgment for the original defendant, for costs.