Case Name: Tutt v. Freeman
Court: General Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1736-10
Citations: 1 Jefferson 24
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tutt v. Freeman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Jefferson
Volume: 1
Pages: 18–18

Head Matter:
Tutt v. Freeman.
October, 1736.
Jurisdiction — Amount in Controversy.
Reported by Edward Barradall, Esq.
Indebitatus assumpsit for goods sold, money lent, and paid, and s.ervices done. The jury found only nine pounds three shillings damages.
Randolph
moved that no judgment ought to be given, the damages being under ten pounds sterling. So the action will not lie in this court.
Barradall, contra.
Judgments are given here every day, where the damages found by the jury are under ten pounds, if the cause of action laid in the declaration, is for so much, and so the practice was agreed to be.
See monographic note on “Jurisdiction” appended to Phippen v. Durham, 8 Gratt. 457.

Opinion:
And the motion was overruled.