Columbus Junction Telephone Co. v. Overholt

This suit was commenced before a justice of the peace, and on the return day the defendant appeared and filed an answer. A motion to strike from the answer and to make it more specific was thereupon filed by the plaintiff, and was sustained. The defendant then filed a substituted answer, and immediately thereafter a motion for a change of venue, which was sustained, and the case was sent to the next nearest justice, where a trial was had and a judgment rendered for the defendant.

The controlling question is whether the change was-rightly granted, and its solution depends on the construction of…