Storm v. Worland

Suit by Storm against Worland, before a Justice, to recover an account, etc. Appeal to the Common Pleas. Before the Justice, the defendant pleaded to the jurisdiction, that he was a resident of another township, *204but did not aver, in his plea, that there was any Justice in his township competent to act, nor was his plea verified. The Justice seems to have disregarded this plea, and very properly, for the defects specified; whereupon the defendant pleaded to the merits, and judgment was rendered against him. In the Court of Common Pleas, the defendant asked and obtained leave, over the…