Stringer v. Dean

This suit was commenced by writ of attachment in the circuit court for the county of Tuscola. No personal service of the writ was made upon the defendant, and the plaintiff proceeded to judgment before the defendant learned that suit had been instituted.

Judgment was rendered March 16, 1885. May 5, 1885, the defendant entered a special motion to set aside said judgment and quash the writ for alleged defects in the affidavit for the writ, and filed an affidavit in support of the motion, setting forth that at the date of the issuing of the writ the plaintiff and himself were both residents of…