Sec. 6. A city court in a third class city that is not a county seat and to which section 5 of this chapter does not apply has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court in civil cases in which the amount in controversy does not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000). However, the city court does not have: (1) jurisdiction in actions for: (A) slander; (B) libel; (C) foreclosure of mortgages on real estate, in which the title to real estate is in issue; (D) all matters relating to a decedent's estate, appointment of guardians and all related matters; and (E) actions in equity; and (2) original jurisdiction in which the principal defendant resides within another city having a city court with a civil jurisdiction. Judgments rendered in the city court, when a certified transcript is filed with the clerk of the circuit court, have the same force as judgments rendered in the circuit court. [Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-10.1-2-5.]
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