Love v. Huffines

Tbis is an action originally commenced before a justice of tbe peace to recover tbe sum of $194.78. "We will say in tbe beginning tbat we do not approve tbe method of pleading generally adopted in tbe State, of issuing a summons for a de*379fendant, merely requiring Mm to appear and answer a complaint upon a cause of action not stated in the summons and not after-wards stated before the magistrate and recorded in his docket. "We again call the attention of the profession to the provision of the statute that a plaintiff must somewhere, either in the summons or in the complaint before the justice,…