State ex rel. Cook v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland

POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT :

The judgment to which this writ of error was awarded gave the plaintiff a recovery of $100.00, the debt sued for, 8 cents interest thereon and $6.05 costs in the justice’s court *193from which the case came into the circuit court by appeal. As the amount in controversy must be more than $100.00, to confer jurisdiction upon this court, and, it is assumed by the defendant in error, that the amount here involved is not sufficient, he has moved for a dismissal of the writ, as having been improvidently awarded. He evidently thinks the margin of 8 cents insufficient. The maxim,…