St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. Tolbert
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Pontotoc County; Tom D. McKeown, Judge. Action by S. R. Tolbert and another against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company and James W. Lusk and others, receivers of the railroad company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, J.
On February 5, 1914, S. R. and Media Tolbert, defendants in error, sued the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, plaintiff in error, before a justice of the peace at Ada for $19.75,- and thereafter judgment was rendered and entered in favor of plaintiffs and against defendant for said amount. Thereupon defendant appealed to the district court, where the appeal was dismissed “for the reason that the amount involved in said cause, and for which judgment of the justice of the peace was rendered in' favor of the plaintiffs and against defendant, does not exceed the sum of $20.”
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