More v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was ati appeal from a justice of the peace, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Cugndenin, one of the circuit judges. More sued the Real Estate Bank, in March, 1842, before a justice, on two of its 'notes, for $,50 each. Thé justice issued an ordinary summons, which was served by-reading to the president; and on the return day he rendered judgment by default.
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This was ati appeal from a justice of the peace, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Cugndenin, one of the circuit judges. More sued the Real Estate Bank, in March, 1842, before a justice, on two of its 'notes, for $,50 each. Thé justice issued an ordinary summons, which was served by-reading to the president; and on the return day he rendered judgment by default. More then sued out from the justice a writ of garnishment on the judgment, against Woodruff, and on its return filed interrogatories, alleging that WoonrufFowed the Bank ten thousand…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lacy, J.
The principal questions in this case relate to the constitutional jurisdiction of justices of the peace. The fourth section of the eighty-seventh chapter of the Revised Statutes declares that no justice shall have cognizance of any action against corporations. We hold this act to be a palpable violation of the constitution. That instrument declares that justices of the peace, severally or jointly, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all matters of contract, (except in actions of covenant), where the sum in. controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars. This…
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