Chevalier v. Wakefield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of error to reverse a judgment of the City Court of Hartford in an action of summary process, brought to this court on the first Tuesday of March, 1912, the opening day of the present term, where the defendants filed a plea in abatement for the reason that service thereof was not made at least thirty days before the return day, and return made at least twenty days before that day, to which the plaintiff demurred and also moved to erase.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
“Writs of error shall be served and returned as other civil process.” General Statutes, § 822. Civil process to this court must be served at least thirty days inclusive before the day of the sitting of the court, and returned at least twenty days before that day. General Statutes, §§ 563, 564. To this requirement there is no exception. This writ was not so served or returned. Possibly it would have been wise had the amendment of the charter of the city of Hartford (14 Special Laws, p. 600), which conferred upon the City Court of that city exclusive jurisdiction of all civil actions…
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