St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Couch

Section 6395, Compiled Laws of Oklahoma 1909, in force prior to statehood, provides:

“An appeal may be taken from the final judgment of a justice of the peace in any case, except in cases hereinafter stated, in which no appeal shall be allowed: First, On judgments rendered on confession. Second, In jury trials, where neither party claims in his bill of particulars a sum exceeding twenty dollars.”

The only question necessary to decide in order to dispose of this ease is whether in an action instituted prior to the admission of Oklahoma Territory into the Union as a part of the state of Oklahoma…