12 Ga. App. 305 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1913
1. The city court of Monroe has jurisdiction to try at the quarterly session of the court all civil cases of whatever natdre where the amount claimed or involved, inclusive of interest, is as much as fifty dollars, except where, under the constitution, exclusive jurisdiction is given to the superior court. Acts 1905, p. .303. By an amendment to the act referred to, the city court is given jurisdiction to try .and dispose of all civil cases at its monthly sessions where the principal sum claimed in the suit does not exceed $200, provided no jury is demanded. Acts 1906, p. 270. Under the act as amended, a civil suit involving a principal sum of less than $200, where no jury was demanded, was properly triable before the judge and jury at a quarterly session of the court.
2. On the trial of an action upon a contract, the making of which ivas denied by the defendant, an offer by him to “call off the trade” under the contract, the offer not being made pending any negotiations for compromise, was admissible as a circumstance tending to show that the defendant had made the contract. Hatcher v. Brown, 74 Ga. 841; Cooper v. Jones, 79 Ga. 379 (4 S. E. 916).
Judgment affirmed.