May v. Wilson

Lowe, Ch. J.

i. ArruAii: Wam™ This suit was commenced originally before a justice of the peace. Judgment for the defendant and plaintiff appealed to the District Court, where, upon motion, his appeal was dismissed because the revenue stamp of fifty cents had been affixed *118to the.written notice of appeal instead of the appeal bond. This was error, and the case must be reversed.

The language of the revenue act upon this subject is as fellows: “Writs or other process, on appeals from a justice’s court or other inferior tribunal to a court of record, 50 cents.”

Appeals in this State from a justice’s…