Williams v. Blankenship

The administrators of Trailor brought a suit against the executors of Trotter. The process was in the prescribed form of a justice’s summons, and was subscribed “ Thomas Moffett, Pro. Justice Peace. L. S.” After a hearing of the parties, he rendered a judgment in favor of the administrators, for $43 18. He kept a separate docket for the entry of suits before him as a justice of the peace, in which the proceedings and judgment in this case were entered. He supposed that he had jurisdiction of the action as an ordinary justice of the peace, and considered himself as acting in that capacity. A…