
    Case No. 14,001.
    THORNTON v. WASHINGTON.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 212.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1827.
    Justice of Peace — Appeal — District of Columbia.
    No appeal lies from the judgment of a justice of the peace, unless the “debt or demand” exceed the sum of five dollars.
    Appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace for a penalty of five dollars, for not registering a dog, according to the bylaw of the corporation of Washington, of 1st of April, 1S20. Burch, Dig. p. 83, § 20.
   The appeal was dismissed by

THE COURT

without costs, (nem. con.) no appeal being given by the seventh section of the act of congress [2 Stat. 239], unless “the debt or demand doth exceed the sum of five dollars.”  