Williams v. Wilson

Wilson having obtained a judgment in the country, for fourteen dollars, against Williams, on a warrant upon a covenant for fifty five barrels of corn—the latter appealed to the Circuit Court; where his appeal was dismissed, with a judgment against him for costs, the Circuit Judge expressing the opinion that the appeal should have been to the County Court.

This writ of error is brought to reverse that judgment.

If the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction, the judgment for costs was evidently erroneous.

But that Court had jurisdiction, and therefore erred in dismissing the appeal for a supposed want…