Wood v. Lake

*285This is one of those extraordinary cases, in which the judgment which was originally entered against Lake ought not to stand, and in which the judgment impeaching it rendered upon proceedings under a writ of certiorari cannot be sustained. The result looks like an apparent inequity, but under the record, justice is not far from being accomplished.

Emma Pruitt brought suit against Lake to recover twenty-five dollars due her for work and labor done. Wood, a justice of the peace in Garfield county, after proper steps taken to that end issued a writ of attachment in aid of the suit. It was…