Walter v. Bierman

On the 26th day of October, 1870, the defendant in error recovered a judgment in justice’s court against plaintiffs in error, for $47.57. On the 8th day of November, 1870, Charlotte Walter, one of the defendants below, alone took an appeal from said judgment to the circuit court of Clinton county, a term of which was begun on the 14th of the same month of November. On the 22d day of that month, without any summons having been issued, to bring in Alexander Walter, or his appearance having been entered, the circuit court, on the motion of appellee, in that case, dismissed the appeal with a…