Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Coursen

Alabama Court of Appeals

Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Coursen

62 So. 977, 8 Ala. App. 589, 1913 Ala. App. LEXIS 229

CourtAlabama Court of Appeals

DecidedJune 10, 1913

StatusPublished

Cited by10 cases

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Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Coursen, 62 So. 977, 8 Ala. App. 589, 1913 Ala. App. LEXIS 229 (Ala. Ct. App. 1913).

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PELHAM, J.

The complaint set out in the transcript shows that the suit brought by the appellee as plaintiff in the circuit court was for damages for failure of the defendant as a common carrier to deliver certain baggage, and the amount claimed is $33.20. The record entry shows a judgment by the circuit court in favor of the plaintiff for $28.20, and the appeal is certified as coming from, the circuit court. The amount claimed is below the original jurisdiction of the circuit court, and there is absolutely nothing in the record to show that the suit was originally instituted in a court having jurisdiction, and that the circuit court was exercising appellate jurisdiction in trying the case and rendering the judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted. The complaint and pleas as set out in the transcript appear to have been originally filed in the circuit court, and that court was without original jurisdiction to try the ease and render judgment therein. — Code, § 3255, subd. 1. The transcript fails to show a legal judgment rendered by a court with jurisdiction in the premises, and, as a void judgment can be neither affirmed nor reversed (Adams v. Wright, 129 Ala. 305, 30 South. 574), a dismissal of the appeal must necessarily follow (Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Burleson, 4 Ala. App. 384, 59 South. 230; Gunter v. Mason, 125 Ala. 644, 27 South. 843).

Appeal dismissed.

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PELHAM, J.

The complaint set out in the transcript shows that the suit brought by the appellee as plaintiff in the circuit court was for damages for failure of the defendant as a common carrier to deliver certain baggage, and the amount claimed is $33.20. The record entry shows a judgment by the circuit court in favor of the plaintiff for $28.20, and the appeal is certified as coming from, the circuit court. The amount claimed is below the original jurisdiction of the circuit court, and there is absolutely nothing in the record to show that the suit was originally instituted in a court having jurisdiction, and that the circuit court was exercising appellate jurisdiction in trying the case and rendering the judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted. The complaint and pleas as set out in the transcript appear to have been originally filed in the circuit court, and that court was without original jurisdiction to try the ease and render judgment therein. — Code, § 3255, subd. 1. The transcript fails to show a legal judgment rendered by a court with jurisdiction in the premises, and, as a void judgment can be neither affirmed nor reversed (Adams v. Wright, 129 Ala. 305, 30 South. 574), a dismissal of the appeal must necessarily follow (Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Burleson, 4 Ala. App. 384, 59 South. 230; Gunter v. Mason, 125 Ala. 644, 27 South. 843).

Appeal dismissed.

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