Court Opinion

ID: 6537073
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 22:12:37.523385+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:55:41.662388
License: Public Domain

Johnson, C. J., delivered the opinion of the court. The question raised by the record is whether the circuit court had jurisdiction of the case. The appellee filed his petition in the circuit court for a writ of certiorari to bring up the proceedings had before the justice, and the prayer of the petitioner was granted, but there is nothing in the record going to show that the writ was issued. Upon inspection of the record we find a transcript of the proceedings had before the justice, but it does not appear to have been filed in obedience to the process of the court. The transcript of the justice’s proceedings appears in the circuit court, and both parties seem to have taken it for granted that the court had jurisdiction, and accordingly appeared and litigated the matters in controversy. A judgment rendered by the circuit court upon a. transcript from a justice of the peace, when it does not appear of record that it found its way into that court in some one of the modes pointed out by law, is a mere nullity and void. It does not appear from the record in this case that the circuit court ever acquired jurisdiction either by appeal or certiorari or in any other mode known to our constitution and laws. It is clear therefore, that no jurisdiction ever vested in the circuit court |o try and determine the case.