Johnson v. Logan

Citations

• 68 Ill. 313

Syllabus

<p>Former recovery—-plea of. In a suit upon a promissory note, the defcnclant pleaded a former recovery upon the same cause of action in a justice’s court, held by a police magistrate of the city of Centralia, after the new constitution went into effect, for the sum of §269.65: Held, that the plea was clearly bad, as the police magistrate had no jurisdiction of the subject matter to that amount, under the new constitution.</p>