Case Name: JONES vs. TEMPLE
Court: Harrison County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1816-11
Citations: 1 Tapp. Rep. 74
Docket Number: 
Parties: JONES vs. TEMPLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases decided in the Courts of common pleas, in the Fifth circuit of the state of Ohio [1816-1819] (Tappan)
Volume: 1
Pages: 74–74

Head Matter:
JONES vs. TEMPLE.
By the return to a certiorari it must appear that the inferior court had jurisdiction, or the judgment of such court will be reversed.
Certiorari, to Paul Preston, Esq., a justice of the peace.
The following transcript was returned, viz.: “ Summons returned “ August 31,1816, defendant appeared and was not ready for trial, and “ it is put off until 7th day of Sept. next. Sept. 7th, parties appeared, “ and after hearing the several proofs judgment is given in favor of “plaintiff, for $5 18 cents.”

Opinion:
President.
It is necessary that it should appear by the transcript that the subject matter of the suit was within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, that jurisdiction being a limited one; it does not appear here for what the suit was brought. Let the judgment of the justice, therefore, be reversed.