Betts v. Falgo
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. G-raham, Judge. Suit by J. C. Falgo against James Betts. Judgment for plaintiff, nnd defendant appeals.
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Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. D. M. G-raham, Judge. Suit by J. C. Falgo against James Betts. Judgment for plaintiff, nnd defendant appeals. The jurisdiction of the justice court is prescribed by section 2723, Code of 1906, section 2222 of Hemingway’s Code, as follows: “Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction of all actions for the recovery of debts or damages or personal property where the principal of the debt, the amount of the demand, or the value of the property sought to be recovered shall not exceed two hundred dollars.” This section gives the justice of the…
1Opinion of the Court
William H. Cook,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee, J. C. Falgo, instituted suit in a justice court of Harrison county against James . Betts for two hundred *258dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by his motor truck in. a collision with appellant’s Ford, and from a judgment for the sum sued for defendant appealed to the circuit court. In the circuit court there was also a judgment for the sum' of two hundred dollars, and from this' judgment this appeal was prosecuted.
Upon the trial in the circuit court, on the question of the amount of the damage, the testimony offered by…
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