Love v. . Huffines

The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. This is an action originally commenced before a justice of the peace to recover the sum of $194.78. We will say in the beginning that we do not approve the method of pleading generally adopted in the State, of issuing a summons for a defendant, merely requiring him to appear and answer a complaint upon a cause of action not stated in the summons and not afterwards stated before the (379) magistrate and recorded in his docket. We again call the attention of the profession to the provision of the statute that a plaintiff must somewhere, either…