Case Name: Washington Baldwin v. James Coyle
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1885-12-06
Citations: 7 Houst. 327
Docket Number: 
Parties: Washington Baldwin v. James Coyle.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 327–327

Head Matter:
Washington Baldwin v. James Coyle.
Foreign Judgment—Jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace.
A suit upon a foreign judgment is not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace in this State.
(New Castle,
December 6, 1885.)
Appeal from Bertolette, Justice of the Peace for New Castle County.
The suit before him was on a judgment recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, in the State of Pennsylvania, for the sum of forty-three dollars and seventy-three cents and costs, with interest, etc.
Richardson, for the defendant,
now submitted a motion to the court to dismiss the appeal because an action on a foreign judgment or on a judgment recovered in another State, even for a sum less than one hundred dollars, is not within the jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace in this State.

Opinion:
The Court
so held, and dismissed the appeal.