Payne v. Weems
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Newton Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge. The circuit court, under the pleading in this cause, had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter, but under the statute the justices of the peace in Newton county had exclusive, and not concurrent, jurisdiction with the circuit court over the cause, the amount in plaintiff’s petition and affidavit being therein alleged to be of less value than one hundred and fifty dollars, to wit, one hundred and- thirty…
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Appeal from the Newton Circuit Court. — Hon. M. G. McGregor, Judge. The circuit court, under the pleading in this cause, had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter, but under the statute the justices of the peace in Newton county had exclusive, and not concurrent, jurisdiction with the circuit court over the cause, the amount in plaintiff’s petition and affidavit being therein alleged to be of less value than one hundred and fifty dollars, to wit, one hundred and- thirty dollars; and Newton county, Mo., having less than fifty thousand population, makes the statute referred to here apply to…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This was an action of replevin, commenced in the circuit court of Newton county, for the recovery of a horse, alleged in the petition to be of the value of one hundred dollars, and also a cow, alleged in the petition to be of the value of thirty dollars. The petition claims damages for the detention of the property sued for in the sum of five hundred dollars, and also damages for injury thereto, in the sum of seventy-five dollars, making a total claim of seven hundred and five dollars. There was a verdict for the recovery of the horse, fixing its value at sixty dollars, but no finding in…
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