Stamer v. Nass

The opinion of the court was delivered

by Woodward, J.

We think the justice had jurisdiction. He sets out the cause of action as a claim by plaintiffs for $90, for a wagon that defendants took under an execution and sold as the property of the plaintiff, which he claimed under the $800 law. That jurisdiction of such a cause of action vested in the justice admits of no doubt. But he styled it a plea of trover and conversion. What of that? Under the act of 1814 he had jurisdiction in trover, and it is not altogether clear that trover would not lie for such a taking and conversion of the wagon.…