State ex rel. Dobson v. Newman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The relator’s claim to relief is predicated on the following state of facts, viz.:

That the commercial firm of L. D. & G. T. Golson, doing business in the city of Monroe, within the jurisdiction of the respondent, Newman, filed in his court, simultaneously, seventeen suits having the consecutive numbers 115 to 131 inclusive, against him (the relator) , each one of said suits being for the sum of ten dollars and aggregating one hundred and seventy dollars, an amount in excess of the jurisdiction of his court.

That these several suits are based…