Betts v. Falgo

Citations

• 126 Miss. 252
• 88 So. 636

Syllabus

<p>Justices op the Peace. Jurisdiction determined by amount demanded in pleadings, in absence of fraud.</p> <p>Under section 2723, Code of 1906 (section 2222, Hemingway’s Code), the jurisdiction of justice courts is determined by the amount demanded by the pleadings, unless there is a purpose to perpetrate a fraud upon the court and evade the constitutional limitations, by reducing the amount of the demand for the purpose of conferring jurisdiction.</p>