Malson v. Vaughn

Citations

• 23 Cal. 61

Syllabus

<p>Under the Constitution before the amendments -which went into effect January 1st, 1864, an appeal could be taken to the Supreme Court from a judgment of the County Court, when the judgment appealed from, including principal and interest exceeded two hundred dollars.</p> <p>In an action in a Justice’s Court upon a money demand, the defendant cannot set up in his answer,-as a counter claim or set-off, a demand, amounting, exclusive of interest, to more than two hundred dollars.</p> <p>A Justice of the Peace has no jurisdiction to pass upon a counter claim or set-off unless it be for such a sum as the defendant might have maintained an action on against the plaintiff, in a Justice’s Court.</p>