Branegan v. Hilton

Peb Cueiam.

The prosecutor wishes to bring up for review the record of two judgments in the District Court of Trenton, in causes wherein Samuel Hilton was plaintiff and prosecutor was *730defendant. The point made is that the court was without jurisdiction because there was only one claim, amounting to $700, which was illegally split into two claims, one of $500 and one of $200, so as not to exceed the statutory jurisdiction of the court.

In order to ascertain whether this point has a basis of facts, we called for a transcript of the testimony in the District Court, which had been taken…