Jones  V.  Hoffman,  18  B.  Mon.  657.
5.  The  Jeiferson  Circuit  Court  has  jurisdiction  to  award  a
writ  of  mandamus  against  the  city  council  of  Louisville.  Kay
V.  Kean,  18  B.  Mon.  847.
6.  The  circuit  court  has  jurisdiction,  by  mandamus,  to  compel  a
county  court  to  make  a  levy  to  pay  for  abridge  built  under  a  con-
tract with  the  county  court.  Anderson  County  v.  Stone,  18  B.  Mon.
852,  853  ;  sec.  526,  Civil  Code.
1  This  provision  was  repealed  by  sections  18  and  ?9,  CivU  Code.
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7.  The  circuit  court  has  jurisdiction  where  the  principal  and
interest  of  the  debt  sued  for  exceed  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars.  Bake-
well  V.  Sowell,  2  Met.  269.
8.  When  several  notes,  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  more  than
fifty  dollars,  are  united  in  the  same  paragraph  of  a  petition,  the
circuit  court  has  jurisdiction.  Bakewell  v.  Howell,  2  Met.  269,
270.
9.  The  circuit  court  has  no  power  to  set  aside  a  sale  of  land
made  under  its  judgment  because  of  error,  apparent  in  the  record,
in  the  judgment  under  which  it  was  made.  Vanhussum  v.  Moloney,
2  Met.  551.
10.  The  circuit  court  has  jurisdiction  of  an  action  against  sev-
eral obligors  bound  in  the  same  contract  for  separate  sums,  if  they
amount  in  the  aggregate  to  a  sum  of  which  the  court  has  juris-,
diction.     Wilde  &  Go.  v.  Haycraft,  2  Duv.  311.
11.  The  circuit  courts  have  jurisdiction  to  determine  whether
an  election  has  been  "  free  and  equal  "  as  required  by  the  consti-.
tution.    Leeman  v,  Hinton,  1  Dav.  40.
