Brooks v. Harris

The record in this case shows that on the 18th of March, 1871, the appellee, Harris, recovered a judgment against the appellant, Brooks, for the sum of eighty-one dollars and eighty cents, with costs, before a justice of the peace of said county; that on the 9th of May, 1871, Brooks applied to the court of common pleas on affidavit for an order for an appeal in said cause to the court of common pleas; but on the 18th of May, 1871, the, application was overruled and dismissed; that on the 1st of June, 1871, Brooks prayed an appeal to this court, which was granted, and on the 9th of the same…