Thomas v. Lawton
Thomas v. Lawton
Opinion of the Court
The question here is whether an act of the legislature of Georgia, assented to 22d December, 1834,
These are the main provisions contained in the act of 1879. It is not in conflict with the act of 1834, before quoted. That act merely gives the j ustices of certain districts in Richmond county jurisdiction over the whole corporate limits of the city of Augusta, while the act of 1879 confines the jurisdiction of all justices of the peace and notaries public and ex-officio justices of the peace, in all civil cases arising ex contractu, and on injuries and damages to personal property, where the principal sum does not exceed one hundred dollars; and provides that their courts shall be held monthly, at fixed times and places. It will be perceived that the justices in Richmond county are, by the terms of the act of 18v9, limited as to the amount and subject matter of their jurisdiction, and are required to hold their courts monthly, and at fixed times and places, but the territorial extent of their jurisdiction is not limited or curtailed by the act of 1879. It remains the same as fixed by the act of 1834 in this respect.
Judgment affirmed.
Acts 1831, p. 89.
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