Ryder v. Brennan

The statute now in force defining the jurisdiction of the Superior Court in civil actions, C. P. A., § 10, provides that the court “shall also have exclusive original jurisdiction of all other actions at law in which the debt or damages laid in the writ shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars: Provided, that the plaintiff shall not recover costs unless he shall recover in such action not less than five hundred dollars,” &c.

In the present action the damages laid in the writ are six hundred dollars, so that under the words of the statute the Superior Court had jurisdiction of it. The…