Turner v. Williams

The appellee sued the appellant in the court of a justice of the peace of Simpson county on an itemized sworn account for fifty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents, and recovered a judgment by default for the amount sued for. From that judgment the appellant appealed to the circuit court of that county, where there was a trial resulting in a verdict and judgment in appellee’s favor for the amount sued for. From that judgment the appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The only question in the ease for serious consideration is one of jurisdiction. The justice of the peace before ■whom the suit was…