Chap. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact ‘section 6017 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to removal to court of cases from justices of the peace. [H B 31]

Approved February 20, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty hundred and seventeen of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6017. In every case cognizable by a justice, except actions
of unlawful entry and detainer, where the amount or thing in con-
troversy exceeds the sum or value of filfy dollars, the justice shall,
at any time before trial, upon the application of the defendant, and
upon the payment by him of the costs accrued and yyrit tax, remove
the case, and all the papers thereof, SCicuit court of the county
or to the corporation court of the city wherein the warrant has been
brought and transmit to the clerk the writ tax received by him, and
the clerk of the said court shall forthwith docket the case. On the
trial of the case the proceedings shall conform to proceedings under
section six thousand and forty-six.