Able v. Bloomfield

This is an application by the appellee Tor an affirmance of judgment under the 7th section of the act of 1850. (I-Iart. Dig., p. 882.)

On inspection of the judgment it appears to have been rendered in a case brought by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, and for an amount not within the jurisdiction of the District Court. That court, therefore, had not jurisdiction to render the judgment which we are asked to affirm. It is well settled that when the court a quo had not jurisdiction, the appellate court cannot acquire it by appeal. It is manifest that this court cannot give…