Case Name: Rutter v. Merchant
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 36
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rutter v. Merchant.
Judges: Cranch, J., contra.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36–36

Head Matter:
Rutter v. Merchant.
This Court has not jurisdiction of an attachment for a sum less than twenty dollars.
Attachment, on the Act of Assembly of Virginia, issued by a justice of the peace, returnable to the Court of Hustings for &5T0.5. Virginia currency.

Opinion:
The Court
decided that this Court has not jurisdiction, the amount demanded being under twenty dollars, upon the principle that it was the intention of the act concerning the District of Columbia that magistrates should have exclusive jurisdiction of all personal demands under twenty dollars, although the words of the act do not give such jurisdiction exclusively.
Cranch, J., contra.