Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Martin

Hall, Justice.

This appeal from a justice’s court to the superior court was dismissed, because, as alleged, the amount claimed did not exceed fifty dollars. Code, §4157(b). It is insisted, *571however, that the amount claimed in this instance did exceed that sum; that the affidavit requiring bail alleged that the machine sued for was worth fifty dollars, and that its hire was worth thirty-tix dollars, and that the aggregate of these sums ($86) was the amount in controversy. The only pleading in a justice’s court is a summons, to which the justice is required to attach a copy of the cause of action…