Walker v. McMaster

Roberts, Chief Justice.

This is a motion to dismiss this appeal, by the appellee, because the judgment rendered and appealed from is only $146.51, and, as alleged in the motion, “the record shows no excuse or reason why the court should not have transferred the ease to the court of proper jurisdiction.”

The proper court, if reference be had to the amount alone, would have been the court of the justice of the peace, under the present Constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof.

We do not, however, consider that the proper criterion in this case.

There was a judgment for $121.50, rendered…