Moore v. Speed

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the circuit judge to hear a cause and proceed to judgment in a suit where the relator is plaintiff and John C. Davis is defendant. The facts are that John C. Davis is a non-resident of this State, but resides at Madison in the state of Indiana. On the 12th day of December, A. D. 1883, relator sued out of the circuit court for the county of Wayne a writ of summons against the said John G. Davis, in an action of assumpsit to recover the aihount claimed to be due on an open account, which summons was returnable January *851, 1884-, and was on…