American Electrical Works v. Devaney

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the Superior Court sustaining the demurrer of the respondent to the bill of complaint and adjudging that the bill of complaint be dismissed.

The allegations of the bill are in substance that on or about February 27,1907, the respondent commenced an action at law in the Superior Court against the complainant by writ returnable March 12, 1907, and placed the writ in the hands of the sheriff of Providence county for service; that March 1, 1907, one Maurice A. Murray, being then a deputy sheriff in Providence county, made a pretended service of the writ…