Critchfield v. Robinson
Critchfield v. Robinson
Opinion of the Court
The jurisdiction in error of the circuit court is conferred by Section 6709, Revised Statutes. The section defines and limits that jurisdiction by the provision that “A judgment rendered or final order made by any court of common pleas, or a judge thereof, may be reversed, vacated or modified by the circuit court,” etc. The court of common pleas in these cases had not rendered judgements because it had not determined the rights of the parties. Nor had it made a final order in the cases. The orders which- it made did not prevent judgments but expressly retained the cases for re
These provisions of the statute regard the substantial consideration, obviously overlooked by the circuit court, that a review of the judgments of reversal entered by the court of common pleas may be quite unnecessary, for its judgment upon the retrial which it ordered may be as favorable to the original plaintiffs as were those of the justice of the peace.
The judgments of the circuit court will be reversed, the petitions in error in that court will be dismissed, and the causes will be remanded to the court of common pleas for trial according to its orders.
Judgments reversed.
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