Lee v. Moss

BRAisnsroiT, Judge :

Lee brought an action against Edwards before a justice of Wirt county for the recovery of sixty Leghorn pullets of the value of forty cents each, and the total value of $24, and on trial the justice rendered a judgment against Edwards that Lee recover thirty pullets, if to be had, and if not to be had, then the sum of $7.50, their alternative value. The defendant, Edwards, took an appeal to the circuit court. Lee moved the court to dismiss the appeal, ancl the court having refused to do so, thus entertaining the appeal, Lee asks from this CoTirt a writ of prohibition to…