Indianapolis & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Harmless

The complaint of the appellee is founded on a judgment rendered in his favor by a justice of the peace. The appellant filed an answer in two paragraphs. The substance of the first paragraph is this: On the 11th day of August, 1884, Alfred Pell, a constable of Van Burén town*26ship, Clay county, Indiana, in the cause named in the complaint, served process on William Eaglesfield, the agent of the defendant, at Lena, Parke county; the place where the service was made was not in the bailiwick of the constable; on the 24th day of August, James Girton, a justice of the peace, rendered judgment against…