Andrews v. Baker

Rbi’LeviN for a cooking stove, stove pipe, etc., brought before a juscice of the peace, and appealed by the plaintiff. Heard on the defendant’s motion to dismiss, September Term, 1886, Powers, J., presiding. The motion to dismiss was put upon the ground that neither the ad damnum in the writ, nor the sum demanded by the declaration, nor the amount of the property in demand, exceeded the sum of $20, and that the action was not an action of trespass on the freehold.