Opinion

Board of Commissioners v. Addington

  • 68 N.C. 254
Court
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Filed
Jan 5, 1873
Status
Published
Author
Boyden
On the bench
Boyden
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 42.4%

The opinion

*255

Boyden, J.

His Honor was mistaken in supposing that this was a case for his decision at Chambers. The case should have been placed on the trial, or issue docket, to be tried

de novo,

as has been repeatedly decided in this Court.

It is when the sum recovered against the defendant is less than $25.00, or when the plaintiff’s demand does not exceed that sum, that his Honor is to decide the case at Chambers; but when .the plaintiff’s claim is for more than twenty-five • dollars, as in this case it is for more than eighty dollars, and he recovered nothing, or less than twenty-five dollars, but a judgment is rendered against the plaintiff, the appeal is to be placed upon the trial, or issue docket, to be tried anew in the Superior Court upon the facts, as was decided in the case of

Cowles

v.

Haynes,

67 N. C. Rep. 128 , and the case of

Wells

v.

Sluderi

at this term.

This disposes of the case in this Court, and renders it unnecessary to notice the other points made in the case.

There is error.

This will be certified.

Per Curiam.

Judgment reversed.

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