Purdue v. Stevenson

This case appears to have been commenced before a justice of the peace; and how it got into the Monroe Circuit Court is not shown. There was no judgment taken before the justice, and no appeal to the circuit court. The record shows us that on the 17th day of June, 1871, the justice filed in the circuit court a transcript, which contains nothing but a complaint, demanding judgment for forty dollars. The next entry in the case shows us that the parties appeared in the Monroe circuit court, and the. appellant filed a demurrer to the appellee’s complaint. This demurrer was sustained, whereupon…