Wetherill v. Inhabitants of Congressional Township

This was an action of debt commenced by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs in error before a justice of the peace. The statement of the plaintiffs’ cause of action contains four counts, each for the sum of sixty-two dollars. Judgment for the plaintiffs in the Court below.

Several questions are raised by the plaintiffs in error, but the only one necessary to be noticed is, whether the justice had jurisdiction of the cause. We have recently decided that each count in a declaration contains a separate cause of action, and therefore it is, that more than one count in a declaration is…