36 Mo. 110 | Mo. | 1865
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs filed their petition in the Probate and Com
The defendant filed a motion for a new trial, and a motion in arrest of judgment, on the ground (among others) that the amount sued for did not come within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court. It is very plain that the objection to the jurisdiction was well taken. The statute confers on the Circuit Courts concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace, in actions founded upon contract, only whore the amount claimed, exclusive of interest, shall exceed fifty dollars, and not exceed ninety dollars. (R. C. 1855, p. 538.)
For this reason the judgment will be reversed and the cause ordered to be dismissed.