Cody v. Raynaud
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Prolate Court, Arapahoe County. The declaration contained the common counts for work and labor and the money counts.
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Error to Prolate Court, Arapahoe County. The declaration contained the common counts for work and labor and the money counts. At the trial plaintiff read the deposition of Anna Lemon, who testified in substance, that in March, 1869, in New York city, the defendant entered into a contract with the plaintiff, by which she employed the plaintiff to go to Denver and work for her at the rate of $50 per month for the term of one year; also that defendant agreed to pay plaintiff’s traveling expenses in going to Denver. Plaintiff also read the deposition of Wm. E. White to the same effect, except…
1Opinion of the CourtHallett, C. J.
This was assumpsit in the probate court of Arapahoe county, for work and labor.
Plaintiff in error, who was defendant in the court below, was served with summons in Grilpin county, and the first assignment of error questions the power of the probate court to issue process to that county.
The jurisdiction of probate courts in civil actions, when, the sum in cofitroversy does not exceed $2,000, was first *276conferred by the legislative assembly in the year 1864. By the fifth section of that act, it was declared that the probate courts named should have concurrent jurisdiction with the district…
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