M'gruder v. Lyons
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an application for an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Albemarle county. The decree was rendered prior to the 1st of July 1850, when the new Code went into operation; and it was for a less sum than 200 dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
AIyI/E$N, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The act concerning appeals and writs of error and supersedeas, Code of Virginia, ch. 182, 3, p. 683, provides that no petition shall be presented for an appeal from or writ of error or supersedeas to a judgment of a County or Corporation court, when it is rendered on an appeal from a judgment of a justice; nor to a judgment, decree or order of any other Court, where the matter in controversy is merely pecuniary, and not of greater amount than two hundred dollars, exclusive of costs. The words are general, and as they merely apply to the remedy,…
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