Murphy v. Crayton

This was an action by the appellant against the appellees, commenced in the court of a justice of the peace. An attachment was sued out' by the plaintiff, and the goods of the defendants were seized. A claim was filed under the attachment to an amount exceeding the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace, and he certified the cause to the *148circuit court, according to the act of 1859, Acts 1859, p. 95, 2 G. & H. 150, note b.

In the circuit court, the record shows the following entry: “And the defendants, by Tipton & Miller, their attorneys, moved the court to dismiss the attachment in this…