Endicott v. Hall

The plaintiffs sued the defendant upon an account before a justice of the peace. The defendant appeared, and filed an application for a change of venue properly verified, and based on the ground that the justice was prejudiced against him. The justice overruled the application for a change of venue, on the ground that the defendant refused to pay the costs which had accrued in the case up to the date of the application. Thereupon the defendant refused to proceed any further before the justice, and judgment was entered against him by default, which judgment, upon proof of the damages of the…