Fisher v. . Webb

It is needless to make any statement of the facts of the case as it was intended to present and in fact does present for our consideration the single question whether the court of a justice of the peace can entertain an action on a lost note for a sum less than two hundred dol-. lars, the defendant who is the appellant insisting that such a court being strictly one of law, as distinguished from a court of. equity, no such jurisdiction attaches to it.

It has rarely happened in the history of jurisprudence that any one question has given rise to so many conflicting and contradictory decisions…