Wilson v. Owens' Administrator

This was an action of debt, founded on a promissory note, commenced by summons and complaint. The summons does not appear to have been signed or issued by the clerk of the court in which the proceedings were instituted. The signature of the clerk is wholly blank; and the summons bears date in 1860, some five years at least before the note on which the suit was brought was executed, and longer before it fell due. The complaint by which it is accompanied is in the usual form, but wholly without any intimation of a date. The service of the process is acknowledged, and the acknowledgment is…