Greeley v. Stilson

Plaintiffs in error were defendants below, and were sued, in trover for the conversion of certain logs claimed to have been cut from, lands of Stilson & Stevens, in Alpena county-judgment was recovered against them in the circuit court for St. Clair county.

A motion for change of venue was made in the court below, based upon the ground that all the transactions took place in Alpena county, and on the further ground that defendants had been fraudulently subpoenaed into St. Clair county, and then served with process in this suit. The case had been tried before, but no verdict had been found.

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