Michelin v. MacDonald

The plaintiff brought his action claiming $300 damages to the Borough Court of Wallingford, the case was tried without a jury and the plaintiff recovered judgment for $150 and costs. The defendant thereupon filed an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven County. In that court the plaintiff filed a plea in abatement and motion to erase the case from the docket, both upon the ground that the court had no jurisdiction of the appeal, and the trial court sustained the plea and granted the motion. The sole question upon this appeal is as to whether the trial court was right in its…