Lucas v. Le Compte

Citations

• 42 Ill. 303

Syllabus

<p>1. Justices oe the peace—consolidating carnes of action—splitting a demand. Under the statute requiring a party commencing a suit before a justice of the peace to consolidate all his demands, which are of such a nature as to be consolidated, and which do not exceed one hundred dollars when consolidated, into one action, a party having a demand for services rendered as an attorney at law, made up of several items, amounting in the aggregate to more than one hundred dollars, cannot divide such demand and maintain two suits thereon.</p> <p>8. Such an account is one entire demand, and, when the amount exceeds the jurisdiction of the justice, a recovery thereon can only be had in some other court having jurisdiction of the amount; and if the plaintiff should split the cause of action and bring two suits for the different portions of it, before a justice of the peace, a recovery in one of the suits would bar a recovery in the other.</p>