Vicksburg Waterworks Co. v. Ford

Citations

• 97 Miss. 198
• 52 So. 208

Syllabus

<p>Justices oe the Peace. Jurisdiction. Open account. Amount in controversy. Splitting cause of action. What is not.</p> <p>■Where an open account as first made out and presented for payment exceeded in amount the 'maximum sum of which a justice of the peace has jurisdiction, and the creditor, acceding to the claim of the debtor that one of the items was an improper charge, acquitted defendant from liability therefor, credited him accord^ ingly and omitted the item from the account, and) the balance was less than said maximum, a suit subsequently brought on the account was properly begun in a justice’s court, and the rule forbidding the splitting of causes of action has no application to the case.</p>