Long v. Thompson

This is an appeal from a judgment vacating and annulling, on writ of review, a judgment of a justice’s court. The facts, as disclosed by the return to the writ, are that on June 22, 1895, the respondent, John Long, commenced an action against the appellant, L. T. Thompson, in the Justice’s Court for Calapooia Precinct, Douglas County, to recover possession of certain described personal property of the alleged value of $12, by filing a complaint therein, and causing a summons to be issued thereon. At the hour fixed for the return of the summons, plaintiff, Long, as the justice’s docket…