Sanborn v. Stickney

The case presents these facts: The plaintiff on the seventh of December, 1858, sued out a writ against the defendant, describing him of Lee, in Penobscot county. On the eighteenth of the same month the sheriff of Kennebec county made a nominal attachment on the writ, and declared that he served the writ upon the defendant by leaving a summons for him “ at his last and usual place of abode in Kennebec county.” The action was entered at the January term of court, 1859, in Penobscot county, when it was defaulted without any appearance for the defendant. Nothing else appears touching the matter…