Dikeman v. Harrison

In this case plaintiff in error sued in the circuit court for the county of Wayne to recover damages for the intoxication of her husband caused by the acts of defendants. She recovered precisely one hundred, dollars damages, and thereupon costs were awarded to defendants. She brings error.

We have searched with some diligence to discover some statute which would take this case out of the rule which gives costs to defendants in cases where the amount recovered is such as if sued for would have come within the exclusive jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. Comp. L. § 7387. It was held in…