Pickett v. Smith

Lumpkin, Justice.

Two questions were made for determination by this court, one by the main bill of exceptions, and the other by a cross-bill.

1. In Almand v. Almand & George, 95 Ga. 204, this court, following its previous adjudications, held that where an action was brought in a justice’s court upon a promissory note for so much principal debt and attorney’s fees, the sum of which aggregated more than one hundred dollars, the case was not within the jurisdiction of the court. In Ashworth v. Harper, 95 Ga. 660, the above ruling was adhered to; and it was further decided that where such a suit…