Brayton v. City of Anchorage

I cannot agree with the opinion of the majority for two principal reasons. In the first place, I feel strongly that neither this court nor the superior court has jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the district magistrate court in a civil action in which the sum in controversy is less than $50, as .it was in this case.

Article IV, section 1, of the state constitution declares that “[t]he jurisdiction of courts shall be prescribed by law.” To execute this provision of the constitution, the legislature in 1959 provided, inter alia, and in the order following: (1) that appeals to the supreme…