Winn v. Freele

The petition for the writ of certiorari, which was exhibited in this case to the county judge, sets forth that this was an action of damages brought by the defendant in error, •who was plaintiff, and that the justice gave judgment against the •petitioner for the cost, &c. The proceeding must have been under the act of 1841, (Clay’s Dig. 858, \ 8,) which extends the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to all cases of damages, (except actions of slander) when the amount claimed does not exceed twenty dollars; for until the passage of that act, justices of the peace had no jurisdiction in such…