C. R. I. & P. Ry Co. v. Tompkins

Opinion of tbe court by

Burwell, J.:

This case involves less than twenty dollars. It was tried in a justice’s court before a jury. The appellant caused to be settled and signed a bill of exceptions, filed a transcript of the proceedings in the district court, and prayed a reversal of the judgment for alleged errors of law. The petition in error was dismissed by the district court, under the theory that, as the case was tried by a jury in the justice’s court and neither party claimed more than, twenty dollars, it had no jurisdiction of the cause.

The provisions of the statute are plain, and…