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Case No. 11,288.
    PORTER v. RAPINE.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 47.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1812.
    ■Justice of the Peace—Jurisdiction — Amount.
    A creditor may give a credit upon his account so as to give jurisdiction to a justice of the peace.
    Appeal from a justice of the peace. Rapine liad a demand on Porter for $20.85. He gave credit for $0.85 and warranted Porter for $20, and obtained judgment for $20 and costs. Porter appealed and contended that Rapine had no right to release part of the debt so as to give jurisdiction to a justice of the peace. It did not appear that he objected to the credit before the justice.
   THE COURT

(FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, ■absent) affirmed the judgment.