Williams v. Hinton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the County Court of Tuscaloosa County. WILLIAMS sued Hinton before a justice of the peace of Tuscaloosa county, and recovered judgment for fifty dollars. Hinton appealed to the county court; and Williams there filed a statement of his cause of action as follows : — i.
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Writ of error to the County Court of Tuscaloosa County. WILLIAMS sued Hinton before a justice of the peace of Tuscaloosa county, and recovered judgment for fifty dollars. Hinton appealed to the county court; and Williams there filed a statement of his cause of action as follows : — i. For unjustly detaing a mule colt, the property of the plaintiff, of the value of fifty dollars. 2. Because the defendant was indebted to him. in the sum of fifty dollars, the value of a mule colt, contracted to b'e delivered to him ; which contract the defendant failed to perform. The county court quashed the…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
— The warrant issued by the justice of the peace, calls on the defendant to answer a money demand, and! is in the usual form. The other proceedings do not seem to-have been irregular, until the case was removed to the county court, where the plaintiff files a statement of his cause of action,, the first count of which is in detinue', and the second may be considered as in aasumjjsitr
1. Under the several statutes, regulating the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, these magistrates are permitted, in certain-cases, to entertain jurisdiction of suits on contracts, for the delivery of specific…
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