30 Mo. 200 | Mo. | 1860
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit before a justice of the peace on the following statement: “Andrew Carroll and John Carroll, to Jeremiah Ahern, Dr. 1854, July. To value of horse belonging ,to me and unlawfully taken and detained, and which you have failed to return, $90.” At the trial a motion was made to dismiss the trial for want of jurisdiction, which was overruled, and a trial being had judgment was given for the plaintiff for seventy-five dollars, from which the defendants appealed to the law commissioner’s court. Here, a similar motion to dismiss being overruled, upon a trial by the court plaintiff again had judgment.
The only question is as to the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace. The statute gives jurisdiction to justices of the
Judgment reversed; the other judges concurring.