Dammann v. Peterson

The action was against thé defendant as the maker of a promissory note. The defendant demurred upon the ground that the complaint did" not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and in his argument before the justice avowed as his sole cause of demurrer the omission of the plaintiff to allege in his complaint that one or both of the parties litigant resided within the territory comprising the sixth judicial district, the area of the court’s jurisdiction. It was claimed that the rule •applicable to inferior courts requires that, the facts necessary to confer jurisdiction must…