Etheridge v. Hall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit court of Wilcox county. This was a petition to the Circuit court, by the plaintiff in error: it showed that at January term of the County court, held in and for said county, in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, before the honorable Joseph A: Hall, judge of said court, an appeal from a. justice’s court, wherein the sum claimed did not exceed twenty dollars, came to be tried, in which the petitioner was plaintiff, and one Jonathan Kennedy…
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Error to the Circuit court of Wilcox county. This was a petition to the Circuit court, by the plaintiff in error: it showed that at January term of the County court, held in and for said county, in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, before the honorable Joseph A: Hall, judge of said court, an appeal from a. justice’s court, wherein the sum claimed did not exceed twenty dollars, came to be tried, in which the petitioner was plaintiff, and one Jonathan Kennedy defendant, in which said- judge dismissed the appeal, and gave judgment against the petitioner, after hearing the…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
— If the motion to quash the proceedings, is to be considered in any other aspect than as an answer to the rule to shew cause, the course pursued would be considered as most irregular; but this we presume was the view taken of it by the court below, and such we think was the-proper consideration to be given it.
The County court, as an inferior tribunal, is unquestionably subject in all its acts to the direct supervision and control of the Circuit court, which to it is a superior and appellate tribunal; and independent of any other legislation, than that which establishes this relation, it…
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