McGowan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

*199The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The question to be decided is thus stated in the brief of the plaintiff in error:

“Judgment was entered October 31st, 1893, in the First District Court of the city of Newark, in favor of the plaintiff in error, Mary Magowan, for the sum of $211.72 damages, and costs of suit taxed at $39.14. From that judgment the defendant appealed to the Essex Common Pleas. The plaintiff claiming that the appeal to the Court of Common Pleas was null and void because no appeal to the Common Pleas would lie from the judgment of a District Court of over $200…