Hargrave v. Simpson

This is a suit upon a note for $233, and to enforce the vendor’s lien upon sixty acres of land for which the note was given. The petition admits a payment on the note of an amount which reduces the debt below the sum of one hundred dollars ; and for this the court below sustained a plea to the jurisdiction, and dismissed the suit. The correctness of this decision is the only question in the ease;

The jurisdiction of the District Court was sustained in a suit to' foreclose a mortgage upon personal property, alleged to be of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars, given to secure the payment…