Denton v. Town of Danbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Civil action, brought originally before a justice of the peace, and. appealed by the defendant to the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried in that court to the jury before Sail, J. The jury having returned a verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant filed a motion in error, assigning as error the overruling by the court of a motion to erase the case from the docket for want of jurisdiction, made by him before the trial to the jury.
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Civil action, brought originally before a justice of the peace, and. appealed by the defendant to the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried in that court to the jury before Sail, J. The jury having returned a verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant filed a motion in error, assigning as error the overruling by the court of a motion to erase the case from the docket for want of jurisdiction, made by him before the trial to the jury. The case is -fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHovey, J.
This case comes before us upon a motion in error filed by the defendants, to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Fairfield.
The action in which the judgment was rendered was brought originally before a justice of the peace by complaint, demanding one hundred dollars damages. The defendants *369demurred to the complaint, and the justice overruled the demurrer, and ordered the defendants to answer over. The defendants, disregarding the order, moved an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, and the justice, without hearing the parties further or rendering judgment in favor…
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