Duckworth v. Mosier

Elliott, J. —

The appellee brought this action before a justice of the peace, charging that he was in the peaceable possession of the land described, and that the appellant forcibly entered on the land, and by force retains possession thereof. The judgment in the circuit court, to which the case was carried by appeal, was in favor of the appellee for fifteen dollars.

As the case originated before a justice of the peace, the appeal from the circuit court lies to the Appellate Court, if any right of appeal at all exists, unless there is some peculiar controlling element in the case which…