Ball v. Sledge
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of Bolivar’county. Hon. A. McC. Kimbrough, Judge. Ball and another, appellants, were plaintiffs, and Sledge, appellee was defendant in the court below. The case was begun in a justice’s court. Erom a judgment in defendant’s favor the plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court. The state of the record, on which the case turned, is shown by the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Truly, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
This is a suit instituted by appellants in a justice of tbe peace court, and, so far as tbis record shows, tbe case was never tried or decided by tbe justice of tbe peace. There is no judgment of the justice of.tbe peace, no bond for appeal to tbe circuit court, nothing to show a final determination in tbe court where tbe ease was first tried. Sections 83 and 84 of tbe Code of 1892 state what is necessary to be done in causes originating before a justice of tbe peace and appealed to tbe circuit court. Under tbe facts disclosed by tbis record, tbe…
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