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RULE.

APPLICANTS FOR LICENSE.

Applicants for license are expected to have read: For first course Blackstone's Commentaries, (2nd book diligently,) Coke or Cruise, Fearne, Saunders on uses, and some work on Executors and Administrators.

Second course: 3rd Blackstone's Commentaries, Chitty & Stephens on Pleading, Adams Equity, and the Code of Civil Procedure.

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

Supreme Court of North Carolina,

AT RALEIGH,

JUNE TERM, 1872.

LOUIS FROLICH vs. THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY.

Where the complaint alleged that the plaintiff had delivered to the defendant, an Express Company, an article valued at less than two hundred dollars, and then averred the loss of it by negligence, and demanded a judgment for a sum over two hundred dollars, it was held that the claim was founded upon a contract for less than two hundred dollars, and that, therefore, the Superior Court had no jurisdiction of the case.

When the claim is founded on a contract for less than two hundred dollars, the Superior Court has no jurisdiction of it, though it may be a case in which the plaintiff might formerly have sued in tort, and though the damages may be uncertain.

When it appears upon the complaint that the claim is founded on a contract for less than two hundred dollars, an objection to the jurisdiction of the Superior Court may be taken in the Supreme Court, though it appears from the pleadings in the former Court that the objection was not intended to be taken in that Court.

This was a civil action tried at the Superior Court of DUPLIN County, at the Fall Term, 1871, before his Honor Russell, J.

The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that he delivered to the agent of the defendant, for transportation to Hartford,

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