State ex rel. Mooney v. Edwards

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

A mandamus is applied for in this case to be directed to a justice of the peace who presided at a trial between the parties hereto in the court for the trial of small causes, to compel him to alter his docket entry as to the date .at which an appeal bond had been filed.

*480By section 137 of the Justices’ Court act (Rev., p. 564), it is provided that, from any judgment which may be obtained before a justice of the peace, an appeal may be granted by the filing of an appeal bond, &c., provided, that where the judgment was rendered on the verdict…