Thomas v. Thomas
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by plaintiff. The presiding justice ordered the action to be dismissed for want of sufficient service of the writ upon the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtFogler, J.
This is an action of trover which comes to this court upon exceptions by the plaintiff to the order of the presiding justice, on motion of the defendant, dismissing the action for want of sufficient service. The writ is dated August 21, 1901, and commanded the officer “to attach the goods and estate of Mary E. Thomas of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, and now commorant in South Thomaston in the county of Knox, to the value of five hundred dollars, and summon .the said defendant (if she may be found in your precinct) to appear before our justices of our Supreme Judicial Court to be…
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