Miller v. McCray

Citations

• 37 Ill. 428

Syllabus

<p>1. Jup-isdiction—of justices of the peace. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction, under the tenth clause of the seventeenth section of the act in regard to justices of the peace, in suits brought by administrators against a person not an executor or administrator, where the amount claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars.</p> <p>2. Fobmeb decision. Nor is the case of Williams v. Blankenship, 12 Ill., 122, to be understood as deciding otherwise. The court there held that in a suit by an administrator and against dn executor, the justice had not jurisdiction if the amount claimed exceeded twenty dollars.. But they did not decide that executors and administrators could not bring suit to the amount of one hundred dollars, as the tenth clause of the section says they may, in all cases where another administrator or executor is not defendant.</p>