Brown v. Goble

On the 20th of August, 1883, the. appellee instituted, before a justice of the peace, proceedings in ¡attachment against the appellant, charging in the affidavit that the latter was not a resident of this State. Notice was given by publication, and on the 14th of September a default was entered and judgment rendered. On the 31st day of the following .October the appellant filed a motion to set .aside the judgment, supported by an affidavit alleging that he had no actual notice of the proceeding, and that he was a resident of Clear Creek township, Huntington county, at the time the action was…