Merritt v. Summers

Appellee sued C. B. Summers and Alice Summers before a justice of the peace for the costs of building a part of a partition fence. Appellants made no defense before the justice of the peace, but took an appeal to the Circuit Court of Coles county, where the case was tried before the court without a jury and a judgment rendered by the court for $69.25. Appellee introduced the decision of two fence viewers filed with the town 'clerk of the Town of Hutton. As we understand this decision, it has attached to it and made a part thereof the original petition signed by appellee and addressed to the…