Evans v. Allgood

The present writ or error raises the single question whether the city court of Monroe, at its quarterly terms, has original jurisdiction of suits upon unconditional contracts in writing involving less than $200. The act provides for the trial of civil business at the quarterly terms of the court, where, in a suit involving less than $200, the defendant files a plea and demands a trial by jury; but the question here presented is whether the act allows the plaintiff an option in the first instance to bring a suit to the quarterly term in a case involving an amount less than $200. In the present…