Supreme Court of Missouri October 15, 1886 (Cake v. White)

Black, J.

By the act of March 8, 1873, entitled “an act to consolidate into one act the various acts in relation to the charter of the city of Hannibal,” express power is given bo the recorder to hear and determine all-actions for the recovery of personal property where the *81amount in controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars. Acts of 1873, p. 249.