People ex rel. Peets v. Mead

This was a petition for a mandamus to compel the clerk of the LaSalle county court to issue a summons in a cause wherein relators were plaintiffs and Nehemiah B. Harris was defendant, and where the amount claimed to be due to plaintiffs exceeded the sum of $500.

Respondent refused to issue the process on the ground that the county court of LaSalle county had no jurisdiction in causes where the amount in controversy exceeded the sum of $500.

Under the act of 1865, the county court of LaSalle county had concurrent jurisdiction in all civil causes with the circuit court of that county.

In Blake et…