Case Name: SHERBURNE v. SEMMES et ux.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1824-04
Citations: 21 F. Cas. 1266
Docket Number: 
Parties: SHERBURNE v. SEMMES et ux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 21
Pages: 1266–1266

Head Matter:
Case No. 12,760.
SHERBURNE v. SEMMES et ux.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 446.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1824.
Courts — Appellate Jurisdiction.
Quiere, whether this court has jurisdiction of an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace upon the verdict of a jury.
SHERBURNE (SEMMES v.). See Cases Nos. 12,655 and 12,650.
This was an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, who tried the cause by a jury, under the late act of congress for enlarging the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the District of Columbia. March 1, 1823 (3 Stat. 743).

Opinion:
THE COURT,
having doubts concerning their jurisdiction, requested the gentlemen of the bar, if so disposed, to argue the question, whether this court can try a ease, either with or without a jury, which has been tried by a jury before a justice of the peace; and for that purpose, continued until the next term, all the appeals in cases over the value of 820.