State ex rel. Wallace v. Baker

Citations

• 19 Fla. 19

Syllabus

<p>-i. 'the provisions of the acts relating to appeals from judgments of Justices of the Peace, so far as they provide for a trial de hobo in the Circuit Court, are in conflict with the Eighth Section of Article S, of the Constitution, and void.</p> <p>2. The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court in such cases is appellate only.</p> <p>3. A trial de nor.o, or new trial, is the exercise of original jurisdiction ; and in cases at law, where the amount in controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars, the Circuit Courts have no such jurisdiction.</p> <p>4. An appeal from the judgment of a Justice of tile Peace has only the effect of a common law writ of error.</p>