10 Watts 299 | Pa. | 1840
The opinion of the court was delivered by
In the enacting part of the first section of the act .establishing a district court, general jurisdiction is given, over all civil actions, whether real, personal or mixed. But in the proviso it is enacted, that .the court shall have no jurisdiction, either originally or by appeal, except when the sum in controversy shall exceed 100 dollars. On the trial, the plaintiff’s witnesses proved the property to be worth about 64 dollars, whereupon the court dismissed the suit, for want of jurisdiction, because, as they said, it appears from the plaintiff’s own showing, the amount in controversy was under 100 dollars. If the value of the goods, as proved, was -necessarily the measure of damages, the decision of. the court
Judgment reversed, and a venire de novo awarded.