Case Name: Eason against Smith
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1822-06-10
Citations: 8 Serg. & Rawle 343
Docket Number: 
Parties: Eason against Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 8
Pages: 343–344

Head Matter:
Eason against Smith.
An action will not lie be. fore a justice of the peace, due on a j'udg™ent ‘VN Court of Com. mon Pleas.
.In ERROR.
WRIT of error to Lycoming county.
_ . Campbell, for the plaintiff in error, stated the question to be, whether an action would lie before a justice of the peace, for the balance due on a judgment in the Court of Common T>, , - , Fleas; and referred to the Act of 20th March, 1810, sec. 14, Purd. Di?. 339.
The Court did not hear Burnside, for the defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The only question in this case is, whether an action lies before a justice of the peace, to receive the balance (under one hundred dollars) due on a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace, is founded altogether on Acts of Assembly. No Act has been produced giving jurisdiction in a case of this kind. Consequently, the justice before whom this suit was commenced, had no jurisdiction, and the judgment given (,y t{je Court of Common Pleas, for the defendant below, should be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.