Case Name: DAVID RANKIN against JEREMIAH MURRY
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1830-09
Citations: 2 Pen. & W. 74
Docket Number: 
Parties: DAVID RANKIN against JEREMIAH MURRY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Penrose & Watts)
Volume: 2
Pages: 74–74

Head Matter:
DAVID RANKIN against JEREMIAH MURRY.
IN ERROR.
On an appeal from a justice of tlie peace, and a verdict and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for a sum less than one hundred dollars, the judgment will not be reversed, although the damages laid in the declaration be two hundred dollars..
If a plaintiff obtains a verdict for a less sum than the award of arbitrators from which the defendant appealed, he is not entitled to recover the costs which accrued subsequently to the appeal*
Error to Allegheny county.
Jeremiah Murry instituted this suit before a justice of the-peace, and obtained a judgment against the defendant, David' Rankin, for #97, from which the defendant appealed; a narr in assumpsit was filed, and the damages laid at $>200. The cause was referred under the compulsoiy arbitration law, and an award made in favour of the-plaintiff for $100' 91;' from which the defendant again appealed, and paid the costs. The cause was after-wards tried by a jury, and a verdict and judgment were given for the plaintiff for $38 07, upon which he issued a Fi Fa for the amount of the judgment and full costs: to reverse which the. defendant sued out this writ, and assigned the following errors.
1. The damages laid- in the declaration shews the want of jurisdiction in a justice, before whom the cause originated.
2. The plaintiff is not entitled to recover costs, the verdict being for a less sum than-the award of the arbitrators.
Fetterman for plaintiff in error.
Burke for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed as to the costs which accrued subsequently to the appeal from the award of arbitrators; affirmed as to-the residue.