Buettner v. Norton & Dickinson Manufacturing Co.

We perceive no ground for reversing the judgment rendered in this cause. If it be true that the summons which had been issued by the justice of the peace and served on defendant in the action (appellant here) was not on file with the transcript and other papers in the case in the circuit court, when a trial was had and the judgment rendered, the absence of such summons would not affect the jurisdiction of the court.

When a defendant files an appeal bond and takes an appeal from a judgment rendered before a justice of the peace, he thereby enters his appearance to the cause in the circuit…