Townsend v. Finley

On the 5th of April, 1831, Townsend obtained a verdict and judgment against Finley, before a Justice of the Peace. Finley, without making the affidavit required by the 2d section of the act passed on the 18th day of January, 1831, entitled “ An act supplementary to an act establishing Justices’ Courts,” &c., p. 48, prayed an appeal from the judgment of the Justice of the Peace to the Circuit Court, which, upon his entering into a recognizance, was granted by the Justice. When the cause was called in the Circuit Court, the counsel for Townsend moved to dismiss the appeal for want of the…