Eatmon v. Driggers

CAYTON, Acting Judge.

This suit was brought under our Negligence Causing Death statute, Code 1951, § 16-1201. It was filed by Mr, Driggers individually and as administrator of the estate of his wife, who had been killed in an automobile collision. The claim was for $3,000, the maximum jurisdiction of the Municipal Court, and the jury’s award was in that amount. The important question on this appeal is whether the Municipal Court had jurisdiction to entertain the action.

In 1942 Congress reorganized the local trial courts and created a new Municipal Court, which it vested with “exclusive…