Case Name: CHILSON vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne)
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1886-02-16
Citations: 1 McGrath 620
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHILSON vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne),
Judges: 
Reporter: Mandamus cases decided in the Supreme court of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 620–620

Head Matter:
CHILSON vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Wayne),
60 M., 235

Opinion:
To compel respondent to order a trial upon a plea to the jurisdiction of the justice, from whose judgment relator had appealed, the plea being that the value of property replevined was $200, and therefore the justice had no jurisdiction.
Denied February 16, 1886.
Held, that the jurisdiction of a justice, in replevin, attaches according to the claim in the affidavit, and having attached continues to judgment at least up to five hundred dollars, and that a plea in abatement is not necessary to destroy the jurisdiction of a justice depending upon the amount in controversy, if shown on the trial to be excessive.