Glenn v. Payne

The question involved in this ease is whether or not the issuance of a warrant by a justice of the peace is the commencement of an action, and arrests the operation of the statute of limitations before service of such warrant upon the defendant.

It appears that the defendant, T. S. Payne, executed a note to the plaintiff, A. J. Glenn (petitioner here), for $263, due ninety days after date. Defendant declined to pay the note at maturity, and, after a period of six years, lacking two days, plaintiff, on March 29, 1924, went before F. B. Blair a justice of the peace for Davidson county, and had…