Jeffries v. Harbin

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This was a proceeding commenced before a justice of tbe peace, by tbe plaintiff in error, against tbe defendants, as commissioners of section 16, in township 16, in range ten West, &c., to recover from tbe said defendants, as tbe cause of action is endorsed on tbe warrant, “bis proportionate share of tbe sixteenth fund, belonging to said township, for tbe year 1849.”

Tbe justice gave judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff, for tbe sum of twenty-four dollars, from which tbe defendants appealed to tbe Circuit Court, and plaintiff filed in that court bis statement, as follows : “ State of Alabama,…