State Ex Rel. Fontaine v. Sullivan

The action is certiorari to test the validity of a judgment garnisheeing the wages of an employee of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company entered by a justice of the peace of Brown county. The plaintiff and the defendant are both residents of Forest county and the defendant resides therein with his wife and family. The line of the Railway Company, the garnishee, runs through Forest county, and a garnishee summons from a justice of the peace of Forest county may be served upon a station agent of the company in that county.

Thus the principal defendant is in precisely the same situation…