Sorenson v. Donahoe
Sorenson v. Donahoe
Opinion of the Court
The following are the facts and circumstances upon which a notice of appeal from a justice of the peace to the county court'was held insufficient to confer jurisdiction: After the entry of judgment lor plaintiff in justice court, and within the time provided by law, defendant’s counsel served his notice of appeal uppn one of the attorneys for plaintiff by delivering to him the following copy, the receipt of which was duly admitted on the original: “Please take notice that the defendant in the above-entitled actipn appeals from the whole of the judgment rendered and entered therein on the 30th day of November, A. D. 1897, in favor of said plaintiff and against said defendant, for the sum of seventy-five dollars, debt and damage, and costs taxed at twenty-nine and 40-100 dollars, to the circuit court. Second judicial - circuit, in and for Minnehaha county, upon questions of law and fact, and demands a new trial. ” The principal contention arises over the fact that the circuit court, instead of the county court, is designated in the copy as the forum to which the appeal was taken, and, upon the face of the original notice of appeal, pen marks are drawn over the typewritten woi'd ‘ ‘circuit, ” and the word ‘ ‘coun
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