Rechnitzer v. Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

On the ninth of March, 1893, the defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error by its full name-before a justice of the peace, in the city of St. Louis, and filed the following statement as its cause of action:

“M., K. & T. R. R. . To advertisement as per contract, August 28th, 1892, to January 1,-1893, $84.”

On the same day the plaintiff also filed his bond and affidavit for an attachment against the railway company, alleging as ground for attachment that the defendant was a nonresident of the state of Missouri.

There was service of a summons on the defendant, which would have been…