5 Whart. 94
Decided January 4, 1840
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1840-01-04
IN’ ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia. Yeates, the plaintiff below, brought an action before Alderman Badger, to recover for work and labour done for the defendant Cleaden, and obtained a judgment for forty-two dollars and twenty-four cents. Cleaden appealed to the Court of Common Pleas, where the cause came on for trial.
Decided 1840-01-04
¶1Neither the sum for which suit was brought, the matter in controversy, nor the amount for which judgment was given, is beyond the appellate jurisdiction of the Common Pleas. It never has been doubted, that a plaintiff may reduce his demand to the standard of a limited jurisdiction, by lopping off the excess; and it is not pretended that more, if so much, was done here.
¶2Judgment affirmed.