Roebuck v. . Short

After the jury had been empaneled to try the issues arising on the pleadings in this action, and after the pleadings had been read, defendant demurred ore tenus to the complaint, for that upon its face the court was without jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action. C. S., 511, sec. 1, and C. S., 518. Decision'of the question thus presented was reversed, and plaintiff proceeded to offer evidence. Before plaintiff had rested the court announced its opinion that the action is founded on contract, and that as the sum demanded in the complaint was less than two hundred dollars, to wit, one…