School District No. 11 v. Williams

School District No. 11, of Eaulkner county, sued Williams in trespass before a justice of the peace for cutting and removing timber from a sixteenth section, and laid the damage at $100. Upon an affidavit made by two of the directors, and on the execution of bond by them and other persons, an attachment was issued, and levied on some cypress timber by a person authorized by the justice to execute the writ.

Judgment was given by the justice against Williams, and he appealed to the Circuit Court, where he demurred to the complaint for want of jurisdiction. The court sustained the demurrer and…