Kimball v. Mack

Error from Jefferson common pleas. Kimball sued Mack in a justice’s court. On the return of the summons, the parties joined issue, and the cause was adjourned to a certain day, to wit, 26th December, at 1 o’clock P. M. at the justice’s office. On that day the justice was from home, and did not return to his office until three o’clock P. M., when he found Mack in a dwelling house adjoining his office, who told him that he and Kimball bad agreed to adjourn the cause until the tenth of January, at two P. M., and the same communication was made to the justice by another person, in behalf of…