Callier v. Trussell

The Code, § 62-603, creates a special tribunal for hearing cases in which damages are claimed on account of the trespass of animals at large (on lands not required to be fenced by the laws of this State), and designates a justice of the peace in the district where the trespass occurred to preside over the case and issue a summons as in other suits, which is returnable five days from the date thereof, requiring the owner of such stock to be and appear at a time and place there named, and which shall be served as other summons. In the instant case a petition was addressed to “The Justice of the…