Hews v. Wall

This action of replevin was commenced by appellee against appellant and one James Fillio before a justice of the peace. Part only of the goods sued for were recovered under the writ. The justice found property in the plaintiff in the goods recovered, and rendered judgment in trover for conversion of the rest. Hews alone perfected an appeal to the Circuit Court, and filed therein, on May 8,1886, his appeal bond. Ho summons from that court to Fillio was issued, nor was his appearance ever filed there, but Wall entered his appearance July 2, 1887. In that state of the record (the transcript of…