McInnes v. McKay

Action on the case to recover $969.50 for alleged services and disbursements and interest from agreed date of demand. The defendant appeared specially to object to the jurisdiction of the court and filed a plea and motion that the writ and summons be declared null and void. The evidence, presented in support of the plea and motion, was an agreed statement of facts. The presiding justice overruled the plea and motion and the defendant seasonably excepted. The case comes up on the exceptions and agreed statement.

The plea and motion raised this single issue of law that the statutes of this state…