City of Prichard v. Harold

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff sued the defendant, City of Prichard, for a license tax claimed to have been improperly collected and recovered a judgment for $636.95. The defendant being dissatisfied took an appeal to the Court of Appeals.

It is urged by the petitioner, for the first time, that, in as much as the defendant had a plea of set off and sought a judgment over, the amount involved was over a thousand dollars and the case was not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals. True, Section 7309 of the Code of 1923 fixes the jurisdiction of said court "at One Thousand Dollars…