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  "name": "James Allison v. Jacob Hancock",
  "name_abbreviation": "Allison v. Hancock",
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      "James Allison v. Jacob Hancock,"
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        "text": "Ruffin, Judge.\nThis suit was commenced in the County Court, and brought by appeal to the Superior Court. Upon the question of jurisdiction, it is to be\u2019 treated in the latter Court, as if still pending in the Court below. By the acts of 1804 (Rev. c. 650) and of 1820 (Id. c. 1045) suits brought iu any Court, for sums less than therein mentioned, are to be abated on the plea of the Defendant. A plea is therefore the only method of taking advantage of the want of jurisdiction. We do not find any statute giving the power of nonsuit-ing the Plaintiff, if he recover less than a particular sum, as is provided respecting the Superior Courts by the act of 1777 (Rev. c. 115, s. 10). But if this were in the Superior Court, the Plaintiff would still be entitled to judgment. For the Court does not ex officio order a non-suit. It acts only on the Defendant\u2019s motion to that effect $ for it may be, that the Defendant would prefer the bar of a verdict form certain sum, to letting the Plaintiff at large again ; and the provision is not to be construed in favor of the Plaintiff, but the Defendant only. And if there be such a motion, the Plaintiff is permitted to avoid its operation, by his affidavit that more was really due.\nHere no motion is made for a nonsuit, but only for a new trial. We see no ground for saying there ought to be a new trial; for it does not appear, that the Plaintiff \u00a1\u2018\u00abcovered more than in law and justice was due to him. Had there been a specific motion for a nonsuit, the Plaintiff, by his affidavit, might have explained the true time entering tiie credit in his account, and showed that it was after suit brought, or tiie Court might, from the Judge\u2019s notes, have modified the verdict, so as to give tiie Defendant the advantage of his account by way of set-off, instead of payment. We cannot tell how tiie facts might have been made to appear. There was no motion for a nonsuit, and there is no ground for a new trial.\nPer Curiam. \u2014 Let the judgment below be affirmed.",
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        "author": "Ruffin, Judge."
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      "Winston, for the Defendant,",
      "JSFash, contra."
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    "head_matter": "James Allison v. Jacob Hancock,\nFrom Orange.\nAlter a verdict in a cause commenced in the County Court, of which a single Magistrate had jurisdiction, judgment of nonsuit cannot be entered, as is provided by the act of 1777 f Rev. c. 115, s. 10) respecting suits commenced in the Superior Courts.\nUnder the acts of 1804 & 1820 ( Rev. c. 650 & 1045) the only mode of taking advantage of the want of jurisdiction is by plea.\nUnder the act of 1777, the Court will not order a nonsuit, unless on motion of the Defendant. .\nThe Plaintiff sued out his writ in Jlssumpsit, for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant, on the 16th of May, 1828, returnable to the County Court. The amount of the Plaintiff\u2019s claim was originally $114 85; but on the day the writ issued, the Defendant rendered an account against the Plaintiff for $85 70, which the Plaintiff instantly passed to the credit of the Defendant. Tne case was tried in the Court below, before Norwood Judge, upon the general issue, and the Plaintiff obtained a verdict for $26 95. \u2014 After the verdict, the Defendant obtained a rule to show cause, why a new trial should not be had. Upon the discharge of which, he appealed to this Court.\nJune, 1830.\nWinston, for the Defendant,\nmoved that judgment of nonsuit should be entered.\nJSFash, contra."
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