Case Name: MRS. SADIE H. BRITT, Respondent, v. ALVA M. SUMMERS, alias ALVA MONTGOMERY, and A. B. C. STORAGE & VAN COMPANY, Appellants
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1917-06-11
Citations: 196 Mo. App. 410
Docket Number: 
Parties: MRS. SADIE H. BRITT, Respondent, v. ALVA M. SUMMERS, alias ALVA MONTGOMERY, and A. B. C. STORAGE & VAN COMPANY, Appellants.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 196
Pages: 410–411

Head Matter:
MRS. SADIE H. BRITT, Respondent, v. ALVA M. SUMMERS, alias ALVA MONTGOMERY, and A. B. C. STORAGE & VAN COMPANY, Appellants.
Kansas City Court of Appeals,
June 11, 1917.
REPLEVIN: Justices of the Peace: Jurisdiction. In a replevin suit where a justice of the peace finds that both plaintiff and defendant have an indefinite interest in the subject-matter, he has no jurisdiction under the statutes to certify it to circuit court as an equitable matter for settlement. And this action by the Justice does not confer jurisdiction of the subject-matter on the circuit court even though the parties appear in the latter court and try the case without objection.
Appeal from Jackson Oircnit Court. — Hon. R. J. Ingraham, Special Judge.
Reversed and remanded (with directions).
W. D. Brown and M. J. Kilroy for appellants.
A. W. Gray for respondent.

Opinion:
BLAND, J.
This is a replevin suit instituted before a justice. The latter after hearing the evidence took the case under advisement and thereafter made the following order:
"Now, on this 17th day of March, 1914, 10 a. m., the justice, after mature deliberation, find both plaintiff and defendant have an indefinite interest by each making purchase payments and accordingly certifies all papers to circuit court as an equitable matter for settlement."
There is nothing in the statutes providing for the certification by a justice of a case to the circuit court under the conditions existing in the case at the time it was transferred to that court by the justice. The justice had jurisdiction to hear and determine this re plevin suit and lie improperly certified it to tlie circuit court. This action of tlie justice did not confer jurisdiction of the subject-matter of tbe action on tbe circuit court, even tbougb tbe parties appeared in tbe latter court and tried tbe case without any objection being made. [24 Cyc. 512; Verbeck v. Verbeck, 6 Wis. 157; Evans v. Phelps, 77 Iowa 526; Crismon v. Tufts, 3 Utah, 251; City of Kansas v. Ford, 99 Mo. 91; Whitehead v. Cole & Rodgers, 49 Mo. App. 428; Devore v. Staeckler, 49 Mo. App. 547; Moulder & Simpson v. Anderson, 63 Mo. App. 34; Green v. Castello, 35 Mo. App. 127; Garnet v. Rodgers, 52 Mo. 145; Hyatte v. Wheeler, 101 Mo. App. 357.]
Tbe judgment is reversed and tbe cause remanded with directions to the trial court to strike the case from its docket for want of jurisdiction.
All concur.