Sizemore v. Coker

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

By their pleadings in the justice court the plaintiffs in error challenged the jurisdiction of the justices upon a number of grounds, one of which was that the statute (Code § 72-201) under which the court was undertaking to act was in conflict with Art. VI, Sec. VII, Par. II of the Constitution of 1945 (Code Ann. § 2-4202), and is therefore void. Prior to the Constitution of 1868 jurisdiction of justice of the peace courts was fixed by statute, and by that Constitution their jurisdiction was fixed over “all civil cases where the principal sum claimed does not exceed…