Court Opinion

ID: 7035464
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 06:45:11.070255+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:11:07.714866
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Davison, J.
Hie appellee, who was the plaintiff, sued William Overion before a justice of the peace. Hie complaint charges, substantially, that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff thirty-eight dollars, for four trees, for which he refuses payment. The damages were laid at forty dollars. Before the justice, the plaintiff obtained judgment for seven dollars and fifty cents, and the defendant appealed. In the Common Pleas, to which the cause was taken by appeal, the issues were submitted to the Court, who found for the plaintiff, lour dollars and titty cents; upon which, over a motion for a new trial, tlsoi(* was judgment, Ac. The defendant appeals to this Court. Has the Supreme Court jurisdiction ? The statutory *227rale is, that “Appeals may be taken from the Common. Pleas and Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court, by either party, from all final judgments, except in actions originating before a justice of the peace, or mayor of a city, where the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and cost, does not exceed ten dollars.” 2 R. S., § 550, p. 158. It may be noted that, in this case, “ the defendant claims the allowance of no set-off, rejected by the lower Court, and that the plaintiff, though in his complaint he claims more than ten dollars, is content with the amount which he has recovered. This leaves the sum in controversy in this Court, four dollars and fifty cents, and no more; because it is only from the payment of that amount relief is sought. And that being the amount in contention before us, we are not allowed to assume jurisdiction. This result accords precisely with various adjudications under a statutory provision similar to the one to which we have referred. Tripp v. Eliott, 5 Blackf. 168; Reed v. Sering, 7 id. 135; Bogart v. The City of New Albany, 1 Ind. 38. As this Court has no jurisdiction of the appeal, the assignments of error will not be noticed.
A. A. Barriolmian, for the appellant.
W. R. Harrison, for the appellee.
Per Curiam.. — The appeal is dismissed, with costs.