Coulter v. . American Merchants' Un. Ex. Co.

This cause originated in a Justice's Court, and comes here upon the permission of the General Term in the fourth department, without any indication of the grounds of the judgment affirmed at the General Term. We are left to ascertain them by an examination of the case itself. One question thus presented relates to the jurisdiction of the justice. The defendant insists that, under the Code as it stood in 1870, the justice's jurisdiction did not extend to injuries to the person. On this point we think the plaintiff right. The Code of 1848 (§ 53, sub. 2) gave the justice jurisdiction of an…