Rhodes v. Matthews

The appellee commenced proceedings in attachment, before a justice of the peace, against the appellants, upon a complaint in the form of a common count, with a hill of particulars filed, for work and labor done and performed.

Numerous other creditors of the appellants came in under the attachment, and filed similar complaints, with bills of particulars, for work and labor done and performed for the appellants.

Judgments were recovered upon the claims, before the justice, from which the appellants appealed to the Superi- or Court, wherein, at special term, upon trial by jury, a general verdict…