Byler v. Jones

Martin, C.

This was an action for damages against the defendant for debauching and seducing the daughter and servant of plaintiff, and was commenced on the 30th day of September, 1879. At the return term in November of the same year, the defendant filed the following answer *262or plea to the jurisdiction of the court over him as a party defendant:

“ Now comes the defendant, and for this his plea to the jurisdiction of the court, and as reasons in denial of the jurisdiction thereof, states that he was at the time of the commencement of this suit, and for a long time prior thereto, a resident of the…