Case Name: Milburn, Appellant, v. Burton, Appellee
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1826-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 639
Docket Number: 
Parties: Milburn, Appellant, v. Burton, Appellee.
Judges: (Thruston, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 639–639

Head Matter:
Milburn, Appellant, v. Burton, Appellee.
A debt of $50, upon which interest is due, cannot be recovered before a justice of the peace.
This was an appeal from a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, upon a bond for $100 penalty, with condition to pay $50 on the first of February, 1820. The judgment was for $50 to carry interest from the 1st of February, 1820, till paid, there being then more than five years’ interest due.
Mr. Peyton, for the appellant.
Mr. Taylor, for the appellee.

Opinion:
The Court,
(Thruston, J., absent,)
said that it had been uniformly decided by this Court that the interest, as well as the principal, is part of " the matter in dispute; " and that if the principal and interest amount to more than $50, a justice of the peace has no jurisdiction of the case.