Sanders v. Brown
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Joseph W. Martin, Judge. This is an action on a personal covenant, and does not involve the title to land. 1 Ark. 313; 7 Ark. 132. Hence the justice had jurisdiction to try it, even though, in determining the suit, he had to examine questions touching the title to land. Murfree, Jur.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Joseph W. Martin, Judge. This is an action on a personal covenant, and does not involve the title to land. 1 Ark. 313; 7 Ark. 132. Hence the justice had jurisdiction to try it, even though, in determining the suit, he had to examine questions touching the title to land. Murfree, Jur. Just. §§ 200, 374 and 178; 52 Mich. 50; 48 Mich. 175; 40 Ark. 78; 63 N. W. 920; 54 Ark. 16; 55 Ark. 147; Const. § 40, art. 7; Sand. & H. Dig., §§ 4317-22. The amount in controversy being only $61, the circuit court had no jurisdiction. 37 Ark. 120; 35 Ark. 287; 24 Ark. 177; 47…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
By deed dated January 1, 1894, for the consideration of $16,000 cash, therein expressed, Brown purchased of Sanders lots No. 10, 11 and 12, and the north half of lot No. 9, in block 125, in the city of Little Rock, the same at the time and since the 18th March, 1890, forming a part of street grading improvement district No. 24, upon all the real property in which the city council, under existing laws, had assessed five years’ improvement tax, to be paid in annual instalments of one per centum each, the instalments in the present instance each amounting to the sum of $61. The defendants claim…
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