Ward v. Boon

OCHILTBEE, Justice.

—Boon sued Ward, Linnecum and others in the District Court of Bed Elver County at the spring term, 1842, in an action of trespass vi et armis, charging that the defendants had beat, bruised, and otherwise maltreated him, etc.; and laid his damages at $20,000. The parties were neither of them served to the first term of the court. At the subsequent or fall term, 1842, the writs were returned “executed” on all the defendants. Ward was served on the 25th of August, 1842. The term of the district court commenced on the first Monday in October thereafter.

At that term of the…