Pennington v. Streight

On the 14th day of® May, A. D. 1874, which was during the April term of the Hendricks circuit court of that year, the appellee filed in the office of the clerk of that court, a complaint against the appellant, for the recovery of the possession of certain personal property of the alleged value of fourteen hundred dollars. Accompanying the complaint, an affidavit was filed, alleging facts sufficient on its face to constitute a cause of action against the appellant for the recovery of the possession of said property.

The clerk thereupon, on the same day, and without an order of court directing,…