Munson v. Atwood

This case is an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas at Waterbury from the judgment of a justice of the peace to recover the balance of the purchase price of six cows sold by the plaintiff to the defendant, the amount involved being less than $100. The case was put to the jury and occupied in its trial one day and the larger part of another. The verdict was for $92.25. To try this case cost the State probably at least $400. The interest of the State in the waste involved, the large amount of time taken in the trial to the jury and the liability to congestion in jury business in our larger…