Porter v. Parker

This action was commenced in a justice of the peace court, there tried by a jury, and verdict rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed upon questions of both law and fact, and demanded a new trial in the district court. No criticism is made as to the regularity of the proceedings on appeal from the justice to the district court, except that the transcript of the justice’s docket fails to show the rendition of *398a judgment by that tribunal; and for that reason it is insisted the district court obtained no jurisdiction of the case. Briefly stated, it may be said: The cause in the…