State v. Pearl

(concurring in the result) — In this case I concur in the result arrived at in the majority opinion, and will briefly state my views.

It is a general rule that a litigant may not recover an attorney’s fee from the opposite party in the absence of a statute granting that right, and our attention has not been called to any statute which gives that right in cases of the present kind; but, in my opinion, these appeals will have to be dismissed for the reason that the amount involved in each is insufficient to give this court jurisdiction under the provisions of the constitution. The same result…