Chicago & Southeastern Railway Co. v. Adams

Appellee recovered judgments before a justice of the peace for stock killed. He filed certified transcripts of these judgments in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, and in his complaint he now asks a writ against appellant’s agent to appear and answer as to moneys in his hands belonging to appellant, according to the provisions of §5317 Burns 1894. A proceeding under the statute is not an appeal, nor in the nature of an appeal, from the judgment of the justice, but is an original action under the statute. When the certified transcript is filed and recorded in the circuit court it…