Hatch v. Christmas

This suit originated in justice’s court, and was removed to the circuit court by a writ of certiorari, where the judgment of the court below was affirmed.

The assignments of error contained in the affidavit for certiorari are all rendered unimportant by the return of the justice to the writ, excepting the fifth, which reads as follows:

“That the justice erred in adjourning said cause to the twenty-eighth day of January, 1887.”

The reasons alleged why such adjournment was erroneous are—

“ 1. That no showing was made for an adjournment, by the oath of the plaintiff or otherwise, that the plaintiff…