Wolf v. Boettcher

This tvas an action of trespass de bonis asporfaiis, by appellee, against Prank Wolf and the town of Jefferson. In the summons, the name of the town tvas, The People of the Town of Jefferson; but the writ was served upon the town of Jefferson by service upon the supervisor of that town, according to statute. There ivas no plea in abatement, but the defendant appeared in its proper name of the Town of Jefferson, filed a plea of not guilty, also a special plea of justification, setting up an execution upon a justice’s judgment, recovered by said town of Jefferson against Frederick Boettcher,…