Rimes v. Williams

1. Where a promissory note for the principal sum of one hundred dollars, containing also a stipulation to pay ten per cent, .as 'attorney’s fees, was sued on in a justice’s court, tlhe summons requiring the defendant “to he and appear at the next justice’s court . . to answer the complaint of [the plaintiff] in .an action upon a note, a copy of which said note is attached to this summons” (and a copy of the note being attached, as stated), it was an action for attorney’s fees as well as for the principal sum named in the note, and therefore beyond the jurisdiction of that court. Almand v.…