State ex rel. Posey v. Ellis

His Honor, JOHN ST. PAUL,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

Eelators seek a mandamus to compel the respondent Judge to grant them an appeal from an interlocutory order causing alleged irreparable injury.

The co-respondent (plaintiff below) by affidavit and extract from the assessment roll shows that the present value of the thing in controversy, five squares' of ground, exceeds two thousand dollars, and sets up want of jurisdiction in this Court.

The only other matter in the record touching the value of the property in controversy is an allegation by said plaintiff in his…