MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 69-13-25. Case brought in circuit court to enforce lien where over two hundred dollars claimed.

If the amount claimed for the damages by animals trespassing exceed two hundred dollars, the plaintiff will proceed by petition in the circuit court, wherein the proceedings shall be according to the practice of that court; and the clerk shall perform the ministerial duties prescribed for justices of the peace in cases before them.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 2051; 1906, Sec. 2230; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 4549; 1930, Sec. 5447; 1942, Sec. 4875.


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