Croft v. Carter

BRIOKÉN, P. J.

This was an action of detinue by appellee against appellant, commenced in the justice court of M. B. Woods, beat 1 of Etowah county, and resulted in judgment for plaintiff. Defendant carried the case, by statutory certiorari, to the circuit court, and there filed a plea in abatement, alleging that he was a resident of beat 26, and not of beat 1, where the suit was brought; that the mule, the subject-matter of the suit, was kept in beat 26, not in beat 1, and was not in beat 1 when suit was brought; that defendant was sued out of the precinct of his residence and out of the…