Benedict

delivered the opinion of the Court.—(After stating the facts.) The magistrate had no jurisdiction to the extent of the debt claimed, which was $1000. He had no authority to issue the attachment, nor to take the bond upon which the suit is brought; and that bond was taken after the dismissal of the attachment by the appellants.

The respondent exercised full authority over his property, which had been levied on under the attachment; and that on the day of the levy. He disposed of it for his convenience and legal relief, and it was so received by the magistrate; and the appellants do not appear to have held any control over it whatever. However much the respondent may have been injured in point of feeling, there does not appear to have been any legal ground upon which to rest this particular action; and no jury can be permitted to pass so entirely beyond the record as to put their finding at total variance with the declaration. That rested exclusively upon the bond; and no other cause of action is assigned. (?) The verdict evidently looks to injuries which were no further connected with the attachment than as being concurrent in point of time: and whether the appellants, or others,…