Bice v. Boothsville Telephone Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Marion County. Application by J. Lee Bice against the Boothsville Telephone Company and others for a writ of prohibition. From an order granting the same, the telephone company brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PoEFENBARGEIi, JUDGE:
The Boothsville Telephone Company recovered a judgment in a justice’s court for the sum of eight dollars, against J. Lee Bice, who took an appeal therefrom to the intermediate court of Marion county, whence the appeal was, on motion, dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the amount in controversy being insufficient. The order of dismissal was accompanied by a judgment for costs, amounting to $17.35, and, denying a lack of jurisdiction in the court to adjudge costs in dismissing an appeal for want of jurisdiction, Bice obtained from the circuit court of said county a writ of…
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