Hoskins v. Roberts

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This was an appeal to the Circut Court from the judgment of a justice, by Hoskins, the defendant in the warrant. On the calling of the cause in the Circuit Court, the defendant’s counsel moved the Court to dismiss the suit on the ground that it appeared from the note and the credit endorsed, as brought up with the warrant, &e. by the appeal, that the justice had no jurisdiction of the cause. ■ The'note was for $60, payable on the 16th of September, 1839, with an assignment to the plaintiff in •the warrant, dated April 27th, 1840, and It credit…