Bolton v. Landers

By the Court, Sawyer, J.

This was an action to recover two hundred dollars rent, commenced in the Court of a Justice of the Peace. The defendant set up title, and the case was transferred to the District *107Court of the Fourth Judicial District for trial, in which Court judgment was rendered for two hundred dollars, and costs of suit amounting to thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents. Defendant appeals. Respondent moves to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, on the ground that the amount of the judgment does not exceed two hundred dollars, the limit prescribed by the old…