Lockhart v. Schlotterback

The appellants sued the appellee on a judgment. The issues formed upon the complaint were tried by a jury resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,442.95. The circuit court sustained a motion in arrest of judgment from which appellant prosecutes this *309appeal. The demand in the complaint at most did not exceed the amount of the verdict.

The jurisdiction of this appeal would therefore be in the Appellate Court. But counsel seem to have supposed that because in addition to the prayer for judgment at the conclusion of the complaint there is a prayer for a decree continuing the lien of said…