Cavanaugh v. Wright
Nevada Supreme Court
This was a petition for Mandamus from this Court directed to the Hon. S. H. Wright, District Judge of the Second Judicial District. The facts are fully stated in the Opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
*167Opinion of the Court by
Beatty J., Lewis, C. J., concurring.
In this case the petitioner, Peter Cavanaugh, was sued in a Justice’s Court, and judgment rendered against him. He took the necessary steps to perfect an appeal to the District Court according to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, approved February 26th, 1866, prescribing the mode of proceedings in Justices’ Courts, and regulating the manner of taking appeals, &c.
The Act directs that trials on appeal from Justices’ Courts shall be de novo in the District Court. When this case came up for hearing in the…
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