Kantrovitz v. McNeill

Citations

• 110 Miss. 873
• 71 So. 13

Syllabus

<p>•Justice oe the peace. Jurisdiction. Amount of controversy. .Reduction of claim.</p> <p>Where an open account is first made out and presented for payment exceeded in amount the sum of two hundred dollars, the limit of a justice of the peace jurisdiction, and the creditor, acceding to the claim of the debtor that several of the items was an improper charge, acquitted the defendant from liability therefor, and credited him accordingly and omitted the items from the account, and the balance was within the jurisdiction of the magistrate, a suit subsequently brought on the account was properly begun in a justice court, and the rule for bidding the splitting of' causes of action had no application.</p>