Curry v. Marvin
Supreme Court of Florida
William Curry, being an auctioneer in the County of Monroe, instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of that county, to recover from William Marvin, the defendant, the sum of eighteen dollars and twenty-nine cents, being one per cent, on the sum of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine dollars, the amount of sales of certain lots belonging to defendant, and sold for defendant by plaintiff.
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William Curry, being an auctioneer in the County of Monroe, instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of that county, to recover from William Marvin, the defendant, the sum of eighteen dollars and twenty-nine cents, being one per cent, on the sum of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine dollars, the amount of sales of certain lots belonging to defendant, and sold for defendant by plaintiff. The sum sought to be recovered was the amount of tax imposed by the county commissioners upon auction sales, alleged in this case to be the aforesaid sum of eighteen dollars and twenty-nine cents. The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Douglas
This case was brought up by appeal from the Circuit Court of Mon-?oe County. The plaintiff in his declaration demands of the defendant *415the sum of eighteen 29-100 dollars, the damage laid is ten dollars— making in the aggregate the sum of twenty-eight 29-100 dollars only. We are, therefore, met at the threshhold of the case here, with the question, whether this court has jurisdiction in it 1
The Constitution of this State, chap. 4, sec. 2, No. 1, of Thompl son’s Digest, page 50, declares that the Supreme Court, except in cases otherwise directed in this Constitution, shall have appellate…
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