Ahern v. Carroll

This was a suit before a justice of the peace on the following statement: “Andrew Carroll and John Carroll, to Jeremiah Ahern, Dr. 1854, July. To value of horse belonging ,to me and unlawfully taken and detained, and which you have failed to return, $90.” At the trial a motion was made to dismiss the trial for want of jurisdiction, which was overruled, and a trial being had judgment was given for the plaintiff for seventy-five dollars, from which the defendants appealed to the law commissioner’s court. Here, a similar motion to dismiss being overruled, upon a trial by the court plaintiff…