Leslie v. Tiernan

Plaintiff’s action was begun before a justice of tbe peace. It was appealed to tbe circuit court, where be recovered judgment. Defendant has brought tbe case here without a bill of exceptions, contending that tbe record proper will support bis appeal.

Tbe sole insistence is that tbe following paper did not state a cause of action in sufficiently definite terms to invoke tbe jurisdiction of the justice:

“Plaintiff for cause of action states that defendant is indebted to him in tbe sum of three hundred dollars for moneys advanced and actually paid by plaintiff for and on account of defendant at…