Hutts v. Williams

Williams sued Hutts, before a justice of the peace, for two hundred pounds of flour, sold and delivered to him;—price, eight dollars. Hutts filed a set-off for two bushels of corn, and a sack, and twenty-five bushels of wheat;—amount, thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. Williams recovered judgment before the justice for eight dollars, and costs. Hutts appealed to the circuit court, wherein Williams again recovered judgment against him, for eight dollars, and costs. Hutts appealed to this court, and here Williams moves to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, because the amount…