Brickley v. Heilbruner

Complaint to set aside an execution, &c. The case is this:

On the 18th of June, 1853, the appellees filed their cause of action against Brickley, before Nelson Kellogg, a justice of the peace of Harrison township, in Wells county. The justice thereupon issued a summons, directed to any constable of said township, returnable before the justice on the 21st of June, which writ was returned, “served by reading;” and Brickley not appearing on the day named in the summons, was defaulted, and judgment given against him, upon which a fieri facias was issued, and returned nulla bona. After this a…