Chase v. Scolnik
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of assumpsit on account annexed, returnable at regular civil term of the Lewiston Municipal Court, said term of court being subsequent to the enactment of a law creating a Superior Court for said County of Androscoggin. The ad damnum in the writ was fifty dollars, and defendant duly filed motion to dismiss the action on the ground of jurisdiction, setting forth that the Superior Court had exclusive jurisdiction where the amount demanded was more than twenty dollars.
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Action of assumpsit on account annexed, returnable at regular civil term of the Lewiston Municipal Court, said term of court being subsequent to the enactment of a law creating a Superior Court for said County of Androscoggin. The ad damnum in the writ was fifty dollars, and defendant duly filed motion to dismiss the action on the ground of jurisdiction, setting forth that the Superior Court had exclusive jurisdiction where the amount demanded was more than twenty dollars. Defendant’s motion to dismiss was overruled and exceptions were duly filed and certified to the Chief Justice, as…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
This action of assumpsit was begun on August 2, 1917, and made returnable on the first Tuesday of September, 1917, in the Municipal Court for the City of Lewiston. The amount claimed in the account annexed is $22.75 and the ad damnum is fifty dollars. The defendant seasonably filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that the Municipal Court had no jurisdiction of the cause, the defendant claiming that the Superior Court for Androscoggin County created by the Legislature of 1917 is exclusively cognizable thereof. This motion was overruled by the court and the defendant’s exceptions to this…
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