Wilkinson v. Moore

— The appellant sued the appellees for a wrongful .seizure and conversion to their own use of a quantity of lumber, the property of the appellant.

The appellees answered to the effect that the defendant Hays being a justice of the peace within and for Wayne township, Montgomery county, Indiana, the defendant Moore, on the 2d day of July, 1879, filed before him, as such justice, a *398complaint against the appellant, wherein the appellant was-alleged to be indebted to Moore in the sum of $49; that a summons-was issued against the appellant and delivered to a constable of the township, returnable…