Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange v. George

Plaintiffs brought an action in trespass on the case against the defendant before a justice of the peace of the city of Boyal Oak. A judgment was recovered, on which a body execution was issued and the defendant taken into custody by the sheriff of Oakland county. Thereupon defendant filed a' petition in the circuit court of that county, praying for a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of his detention. In it he averred that he had been served with a summons in a civil suit begun by the plaintiffs before a justice of the peace of the city of Boyal Oak; that he appeared in said…