Case Name: Giles, per pro. ami, versus Vigereaux
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1851-05
Citations: 32 Me. 565
Docket Number: 
Parties: Giles, per pro. ami, versus Vigereaux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 565–566

Head Matter:
Giles, per pro. ami, versus Vigereaux.
No appeal to this court, from a judgment of the District Court, upon an agreed statement of facts, can be sustained, in an action originating before a justice of the peace.
Assumpsit, for sailor’s wages.
This action came into the District Court by an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace. The facts were then agreed in the District Court, with a stipulation that judg ment should be rendered upon nonsuit or default, as the court should adjudge to be legal.
Whitmore, for the plaintiff.
Danforth & Woods, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Wells, J.
This action was originally commenced before a justice of the peace, and brought into the District Court by appeal. No exceptions appear to have been alleged to the opinion of the Judge of that court. It is not stated in the case presented, that there was any appeal from the judgment of the District Court, but it may be inferred that such course was taken. By statute chap. 97, sect. 13, there may be an appeal from a judgment of the District Court on an agreed statement of facts. But that section relates to actions originally commenced in the District Court, and not to those commenced before a justice of the peace. Putnam v. Oliver, 28 Maine, 442. No provision is made in the statute for an appeal of this action from the District Court to this court otherwise than by a bill of exceptions, and the remedy for the aggrieved party must be pursued in that manner. This court has not at present any jurisdiction over the action. Adams v. Adams, 15 Pick. 177.
Action dismissed.