Case ID: ga-l-rep_1/html/0113-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Singer Manufacturing Company vs. Martin.
    Bail trover, prom Muscogee. Justice Courts. Appeal. (Before Judge Willis.)
    Hatcher & Peabody, for plaintiff in error.
    B. A. Thornton, W. A. Little, for defendant.
   Hall, J.

Whether a case involves more than $50.00, and therefore ■ can be appealed from a justice’s court to the Superior Court, is to be ■determined from the summons and the cause of action thereto attached. Where the summons requires the defendant to appear and answer to a suit for the recovery of a sewing machine worth $50.00, with no other ■copy of the cause of action attached thereto, an appeal to the Superior Court did not lie. Nor was the case rendered appealable because the ■ affidavit made to require bail stated that the hire of the property was worth $36.00. Acts of 1878-9, pp. 153,154; 61 Ga„ 74.

Judgment affirmed.