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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bell v. Davis.
    Where suit was brought in a justice’s court upon an account for $94.80, to which the defendant filed a plea setting up that he was entitled to sundry credits amounting to $66.18, and also to a set-off of $13, and at the trial the plaintiff admitted that $66.78 of the amounts claimed by the defendant should be allowed, and thereupon a judgment for the plaintiff was rendered for $29.02, the balance claimed by him, from which judgment the defendant entered an appeal to the superior court, it wa's error to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the amount claimed in the court below‘was less than $50. The exercise of the right of appeal in such cases depends upon the amounts claimed in the pleadings, and not upon reductions which may be made at the. trial. Code, §4157; Reedy v. Helms, 54 Ga. 121; Taylor v. Blasingame, 73 Ga. 111.
    November 27, 1893.
    Appeal. Before Judge McWhorter. Burke superior court. May term, 1893.
    Johnston & Brinson, for plaintiff in error.
   Judgment reversed.