Brookline Canning & Packing Co. v. Evans

This is an appeal from a judgment for $100 rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the Greene Circuit Court. The suit was begun in a justice’s court, judgment for plaintiff there for $100, appeal by the defendant to the circuit court, trial de novo there and judgment for plaintiff against defendant and the surety on his bond for $100; from which judgment the defendant has taken this appeal.

Since the appellant’s main insistence is that this is a suit in equity, therefore the justice had no jurisdiction and the circuit court by appeal acquired no jurisdiction, we deem it proper to copy the…